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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am trying to plot a time series (a stock index)
with dates on the x-axis. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I type:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>plot(a,b)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>where a is the vector of dates obtained with
chron() and b is the time series, I get a nice plot.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I type:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>plot(a,b,type="l")</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to obtain the same plot with a continuous line
instead of dots, I get the plot of the time series, but the graph is all
scattered with numbers (thousands of numbers everywhere!).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What is wrong?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a better way to get plots with dates on
the x-axis?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marco Taboga(<A
href="mailto:mtaboga@tiscalinet.it">mtaboga@tiscalinet.it</A>)</FONT></DIV>
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