[R-SIG-Finance] Chart formats

[Jeff Ryan]

Heiko,

Try:

plot(GS[,1], major.ticks="years", major.format="%Y")

HTH
Jeff

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Heiko Mayer <Heiko-Mayer at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to get a chart with "years" shown only on the x-axis (e.g. 2005,2006,2007). However, xts and ts always show the day, month and year as shown below. I can hardly believe, the only solution is manually creating a character vector. Does anyone know a smarter idea? Or is there a library I might have overseen providing this functionality?
>
> library(xts)
> library(quantmod)
> getSymbols("GS")
> plot(GS[,1],major.ticks='years')
>
> Thanks,
> Heiko
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