[R] strptime and plot(),lines()

[Don MacQueen]

As Gabor said, your zeit should be a POSIXct object, not a POSIXlt object.

Then, for example:

   zeit <- Sys.time() + 1500000*runif(10)
   val <- rnorm(10)
   plot(zeit,val,xaxt='n')
   axis.POSIXct(1,zeit, format='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')

Or better (perhaps) yet:

   plot(zeit,val,xaxt='n')
   axis.POSIXct(1,zeit, format='%Y-%m-%d\n%H:%M', mgp=c(3,2,0))

However, depending on the overall time range, 
this example might make more sense:

   zeit <- Sys.time() + 15000*runif(10)
   plot(zeit,val,xaxt='n')
   axis.POSIXct(1,zeit, format='%Y-%m-%d\n%H:%M', mgp=c(3,2,0))


>  class(zeit)
[1] "POSIXt"  "POSIXct"

-Don

At 2:59 PM +0100 3/27/08, erkan yanar wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Im reading Data out of a Database.
>#v+
>rs <- dbGetQuery(con,"SELECT * ... )
>attach(rs)
>#v-
>
>There ist a colum I convert into "Time".
>
>#v+
>>  zeit<-strptime(datum,format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");
>>  class(zeit)
>[1] "POSIXt"  "POSIXlt"
>#v-
>
>1.
>A plot(zeit,money) plots the Data.
>All i see on the x-achis are the Days.
>I would like to see the hours also.
>
>2.
>length(zeit) gives mit the length of one entry.
>But zeit exists of 500 entries.
>How can i get the amount of entries zeit got?
>
>3.
>Im used to draw whith lines() into an existing plot.
>But something like lines(zeit,food) wouldnt work.
>
>All this works quit well, when Im using unixtime. But seconds  since
>1970 are not that nice on the x-achis:-)
>
>
>
>Regards
>Erkan Yanar
>
>
>
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Don MacQueen
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