R help - Dec 2005 - FW: R and read.irts

I have never worked with R before so I am
sorry if this is a bad question but I've
tried and tried ( all day ) and I can't figure this
problem out. I have the code below and I included the
data file as an attachment.
 
The code works in term of reading in the data
correctly but when the graph gets
created, the xaxis is really strangely/incorrectly
labelled. I have been trying
to understand this Posixct stuff in R but
I think this is where my knowledge is lacking and is maybe causing the
problem ?
Thank you very much.
 
I am using R in windows but through cygwin if that matters
but I doubt it does. Thanks again.
 
                                  Mark
 
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postscript(file="burp.ps")
 
library(quadprog)
library(zoo)
library(tseries)
 
temp<-read.irts('~/ml/research/data/highfreq.dat',format="%H:%M:%S",tz="
GMT",sep=",",header=FALSE,row.names=NULL,
col.names=c("transdate","transprice","transamount"))
 
temp
 
plot(temp,type="l",xlab="Time",ylab=NULL,main=NULL,ylim=NULL)
 
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The attachment did not come through.

Look at R News 4/1 in general for info on dates and times and
if you still have a problem repost running this and placing its
output into the body of your post so we can see what your
data look like.

   Lines <- readLines(myfile)  # read in lines without parsing them
   dput(head(Lines))  # display first few lines in a way easy to read back in


On 12/28/05, Mark Leeds <Mleeds at kellogggroup.com>
wrote:
> I have never worked with R before so I am
> sorry if this is a bad question but I've
> tried and tried ( all day ) and I can't figure this
> problem out. I have the code below and I included the
> data file as an attachment.
>
> The code works in term of reading in the data
> correctly but when the graph gets
> created, the xaxis is really strangely/incorrectly
> labelled. I have been trying
> to understand this Posixct stuff in R but
> I think this is where my knowledge is lacking and is maybe causing the
> problem ?
> Thank you very much.
>
> I am using R in windows but through cygwin if that matters
> but I doubt it does. Thanks again.
>
>                                  Mark
>
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>
> postscript(file="burp.ps")
>
> library(quadprog)
> library(zoo)
> library(tseries)
>
>
temp<-read.irts('~/ml/research/data/highfreq.dat',format="%H:%M:%S",tz="
> GMT",sep=",",header=FALSE,row.names=NULL,
>
col.names=c("transdate","transprice","transamount"))
>
> temp
>
>
plot(temp,type="l",xlab="Time",ylab=NULL,main=NULL,ylim=NULL)
>
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
>
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