[R] barplot

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Would the following do it?



# make the dates vector
x <- seq(as.Date("2011-03-15"), as.Date("2011-09-09"), by="day")
# this is the important part
labs <- seq(min(x), max(x), by="month") # "month", not 30
labs <- format(labs, "%b")
labs.pos <- round(seq(1, length(x), length.out=length(labs)))

# make some abundance data
set.seed(1)
y <- rnorm(1e4)
y <- hist(y, breaks=seq(min(y) - 0.5, max(y) + 0.5, length.out=180),
plot=FALSE)$counts

df1 <- data.frame(datum=x, abundance=y)

barplot(df1$abundance, xaxt="n")
axis(1, at=labs.pos, labels=labs)


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

bets wrote
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I am trying to create barplot of abundances over time (in days). The
> period is over 171 days, so I don't want to have all labels there but only
> the first day of the month. I couldn't find anything like this on the
> forum yet. Mostrly it's about year to year data. 
> 
> This is the relevant part of my table:
> 
> datum	month	abundance
> 26/03/11	 March	1
> 27/03/11	 March	0
> 28/03/11	 March	1
> 29/03/11	 March	0
> 30/03/11	 March	0
> 31/03/11	 March	0
> 1/04/11	 April	0
> 2/04/11	 April	0
> 3/04/11	 April	0
> ...
> 9/09/11 September 1
> 
> I tried making a sequence:
> hatch$axis.ticks2=seq(from=hatch$datum[1],to=hatch$datum[171], by=30)
> But this sequence is too short to use the names.arg function.
> Next, I tried more ideas from this forum that might work. But the best I
> got was by just replacing the day by a month and reducing the size of the
> tickmarks. Or by blanking excessive labels in R commander. But this is
> really poor substitute of what I actually want. Furthermore, in the end I
> want the labels vertical to match other graphs (las=2), but when doing
> that my labels become so dense it's basically one black blur.
> 
> bar=barplot(abundance, col="black",xlab="", ylim=c(0,120), axisnames=T,
> ylab="Total fish",axis.lty=1)
> axis(1,at=bar, tcl=-0.01, las=1,lab=hatch$month,cex.axis=0.8)
> 
> I hope I made my problem clear.
> Thank you.
> 


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