R help - Jun 2007 - Time format

Dear R-help list members,

I am new to R, and having problems with plotting part of a time series. I 
have read in my data using read.table, and my 'time' column is
recognised
as a numeric variable. When I convert this to a time format, I am no longer 
able to use its values on my x-axis. The problem is that I only want part 
of the time series to appear on the plot, ignoring the first 23 
measurements.

I would be very grateful if someone could suggest a way of solving this.

Thanks,
Patrick

Hi Patrick,

pm509 at york.ac.uk wrote:
> Dear R-help list members,
> 
> I am new to R, and having problems with plotting part of a time series. I 
> have read in my data using read.table, and my 'time' column is
recognised
> as a numeric variable. When I convert this to a time format, I am no longer
> able to use its values on my x-axis. The problem is that I only want part 
> of the time series to appear on the plot, ignoring the first 23 
> measurements.
> 
> I would be very grateful if someone could suggest a way of solving this.
> 
Does my following example code help? I just reduce the limits on the x-axis.

myts <- ts(runif(480), frequency=12, start=c(1960,1))
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(myts)
title(main="Whole Timeseries")
plot(myts, xlim=c(1970,2000))
title(main="Limited X-Axis")


Hope this helps,
Roland