[R] Multiple time series plots

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Incompatability?  zoo can work with any date/time class that supports
certain methods and such methods have specifically been written
for fCalendar's timeDate class.  In fact there is a section in
vignette("zoo") on the timeDate class.

Also we can readily convert between fSeries' timeSeries class and
zoo and the xts package provides a class, xts, which further supports
this.

Here is some sample code:

library(fCalendar)
dts <- c("1989-09-28", "2001-01-15", "2004-08-30", "1990-02-09")
tms <- c(  "23:12:55",   "10:34:02",   "08:30:00",   "11:18:23")
td <- timeDate(paste(dts, tms), format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

library(zoo)
z <- zoo(1:4, td)
zz <- merge(z, lag(z))
plot(zz)

library(fCalendar)
zz
as.timeSeries(zz)
as.zoo(as.timeSeries(zz))

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Kerpel, John <John.Kerpel at infores.com> wrote:
> Stephen:
>
> That works great - thanks!  I have to admit it gets a little frustrating
> having to switch back and forth between packages because of
> cross-package incompatibility, but hey, more functionality = good.
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> john
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: stephen sefick [mailto:ssefick at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:57 AM
> To: Kerpel, John
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Multiple time series plots
>
>
>
> have you tried package(zoo) it works very well and should do what you
> want
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Kerpel, John <John.Kerpel at infores.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
>
>
> I'm trying to plot two time series created in Rmetrics and label the
> x-axis with dates.  I tried the following:
>
>
>
> dates <- as.Date(seriesPositions(x.agg))
>
>
>
> r <- as.Date(range(dates))
>
>
>
> ts.plot(x.agg at Data[,c(1,5)],gpars=list(ylab="Volume",
> lty=c(1:2),xaxt="n",main="Plot of Volume"))
>
>
>
> axis.Date(1, at=seq(r[1], r[2], length.out=10),
> format="%Y-%m-%d",cex.axis=.75)
>
>
>
> legend("bottomleft",legend=c("Base Volume","Model Base
> Volume"),lty=c(1,2),inset=.01,cex=.5,adj=0)
>
>
>
> All this works fine, except I don't get the dates on the x-axis like I
> want.  When I try to plot a single series using "plot" it works as
> expected.
>
>
>
> Any advice?
>
>
>
> John
>
>
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