[R-SIG-Finance] Data and label skew in plot.timeSeries? (fCalendar)
Gabor Grothendieck
ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 22:25:52 CEST 2006
That should be:
Sys.putenv(TZ="GMT")
On 8/17/06, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have not examined this in detail but its likely a time zone problem.
> Try setting your time zone to "GMT"
>
> setenv(TZ = "GMT")
>
> at the start of your session and see if you still get the problem. Also read
> the help desk article in R News 4/1 on dates and times.
>
> On 8/17/06, Peter Carl <pcarl at gsbalum.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> > I've noticed that there seems to be some skew between the x-axis labels
> > and the data points when using plot.timeSeries (in fCalendar).
> >
> > > benchmark.ts
> > S&P500TR
> > 2002-12-31 -0.0588
> > 2003-01-31 -0.0262
> > 2003-02-28 -0.0150
> > 2003-03-31 0.0097
> > 2003-04-30 0.0824
> > 2003-05-30 0.0527
> > 2003-06-30 0.0128
> > 2003-07-31 0.0176
> > 2003-08-29 0.0195
> > 2003-09-30 -0.0106
> > 2003-10-31 0.0566
> > 2003-11-28 0.0088
> > 2003-12-31 0.0524
> > 2004-01-30 0.0184
> > 2004-02-27 0.0139
> > 2004-03-31 -0.0151
> > 2004-04-30 -0.0157
> > 2004-05-31 0.0137
> > 2004-06-30 0.0194
> > 2004-07-30 -0.0331
> > 2004-08-31 0.0040
> > 2004-09-30 0.0108
> > 2004-10-29 0.0153
> > 2004-11-30 0.0405
> > 2004-12-31 0.0340
> > 2005-01-31 -0.0244
> > 2005-02-28 0.0210
> > 2005-03-31 -0.0177
> > 2005-04-29 -0.0190
> > 2005-05-31 0.0318
> > 2005-06-30 0.0014
> > 2005-07-29 0.0372
> > 2005-08-31 -0.0091
> > 2005-09-30 0.0081
> > 2005-10-31 -0.0167
> > 2005-11-30 0.0378
> > 2005-12-30 0.0003
> > 2006-01-31 0.0265
> > > plot.timeSeries(benchmark.ts,format="%m/%y")
> > > plot.timeSeries(benchmark.ts,format="%Y-%m-%d")
> >
> > Note that the x-axis labels are dated the following day (the first day
> > of the next month) rather than the dates that were passed in with the
> > timeSeries object. So when viewing the x-axis as "%m/%y", the dates
> > and the data do not appear to be lined up correctly.
> >
> > Am I missing something about how to use the function or is this a
> > genuine bug?
> > --
> > Peter Carl
> > 145 Scottswood Rd
> > Riverside, IL 60546
> > 708.447.6465
> >
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>
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