Hi i'm trying to plot my data in R and i can't manage to scale the x axis. My x axis are dates, months and years, and when I plot I only have the x axis like this (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010). I whant every date in the axis not only those years, i want to see every point with the respectively date in the axis. How can I do that? Kind regards F?bio monteiro [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 25/02/2016 7:31 AM, Fabio Monteiro wrote:> Hi > > i'm trying to plot my data in R and i can't manage to scale the x axis. > > My x axis are dates, months and years, and when I plot I only have the x > axis like this (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010). > > I whant every date in the axis not only those years, i want to see every > point with the respectively date in the axis. > > How can I do that?Plot it with axes = FALSE, and then add each axis using the Axis() (or axis() or axis.Date() or...) function. Duncan Murdoch
Hi you do not say which type of plot you use so I presume it is some base plot. you can use axes=FALSE when you plot your data and change axis by axis(....) command see ?axis Cheers Petr> -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Fabio > Monteiro > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 1:31 PM > To: r-help at r-project.org > Subject: [R] Scaling x axis > > Hi > > i'm trying to plot my data in R and i can't manage to scale the x axis. > > My x axis are dates, months and years, and when I plot I only have the > x axis like this (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010). > > I whant every date in the axis not only those years, i want to see > every point with the respectively date in the axis. > > How can I do that? > > Kind regards > > F?bio monteiro > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.________________________________ Tento e-mail a jak?koliv k n?mu p?ipojen? dokumenty jsou d?v?rn? a jsou ur?eny pouze jeho adres?t?m. Jestli?e jste obdr?el(a) tento e-mail omylem, informujte laskav? neprodlen? jeho odes?latele. Obsah tohoto emailu i s p??lohami a jeho kopie vyma?te ze sv?ho syst?mu. Nejste-li zam??len?m adres?tem tohoto emailu, nejste opr?vn?ni tento email jakkoliv u??vat, roz?i?ovat, kop?rovat ?i zve?ej?ovat. Odes?latel e-mailu neodpov?d? za eventu?ln? ?kodu zp?sobenou modifikacemi ?i zpo?d?n?m p?enosu e-mailu. V p??pad?, ?e je tento e-mail sou??st? obchodn?ho jedn?n?: - vyhrazuje si odes?latel pr?vo ukon?it kdykoliv jedn?n? o uzav?en? smlouvy, a to z jak?hokoliv d?vodu i bez uveden? d?vodu. - a obsahuje-li nab?dku, je adres?t opr?vn?n nab?dku bezodkladn? p?ijmout; Odes?latel tohoto e-mailu (nab?dky) vylu?uje p?ijet? nab?dky ze strany p??jemce s dodatkem ?i odchylkou. - trv? odes?latel na tom, ?e p??slu?n? smlouva je uzav?ena teprve v?slovn?m dosa?en?m shody na v?ech jej?ch n?le?itostech. - odes?latel tohoto emailu informuje, ?e nen? opr?vn?n uzav?rat za spole?nost ??dn? smlouvy s v?jimkou p??pad?, kdy k tomu byl p?semn? zmocn?n nebo p?semn? pov??en a takov? pov??en? nebo pln? moc byly adres?tovi tohoto emailu p??padn? osob?, kterou adres?t zastupuje, p?edlo?eny nebo jejich existence je adres?tovi ?i osob? j?m zastoupen? zn?m?. This e-mail and any documents attached to it may be confidential and are intended only for its intended recipients. If you received this e-mail by mistake, please immediately inform its sender. Delete the contents of this e-mail with all attachments and its copies from your system. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are not authorized to use, disseminate, copy or disclose this e-mail in any manner. The sender of this e-mail shall not be liable for any possible damage caused by modifications of the e-mail or by delay with transfer of the email. In case that this e-mail forms part of business dealings: - the sender reserves the right to end negotiations about entering into a contract in any time, for any reason, and without stating any reasoning. - if the e-mail contains an offer, the recipient is entitled to immediately accept such offer; The sender of this e-mail (offer) excludes any acceptance of the offer on the part of the recipient containing any amendment or variation. - the sender insists on that the respective contract is concluded only upon an express mutual agreement on all its aspects. - the sender of this e-mail informs that he/she is not authorized to enter into any contracts on behalf of the company except for cases in which he/she is expressly authorized to do so in writing, and such authorization or power of attorney is submitted to the recipient or the person represented by the recipient, or the existence of such authorization is known to the recipient of the person represented by the recipient.
Hi Fabio,
If you have more than a few dates on the X axis you may get
overlapping tick labels. As an example, take a plot of the winning
parties of by-elections held in Australia in the 21st century by the
dates of the elections:
be_dates<-as.Date(c("5/12/2015","19/09/2015","8/2/2014",
"5/12/2009","6/9/2008","6/9/2008","28/6/2008","19/3/2005","19/10/2002",
"14/7/2001","17/3/2001","12/8/2000"),"%d/%m/%Y")
be_parties<-factor(c("Lib","Lib","Lab","Lib","Ind","Lib","Nat",
"Lab","Grn","Lib","Lab","Lab"))
par(mar=c(6,4,4,2))
plot(be_dates,be_parties,xaxt="n",yaxt="n",
xlab="",ylab="Winning party",pch=as.numeric(be_parties))
require(plotrix)
staxlab(1,at=be_dates,labels=format(be_dates,"%d/%m/%Y"),nlines=4)
axis(2,at=1:5,labels=levels(be_parties))
mtext("By-election dates",side=1,line=4)
As you can see, most dates would overlap other dates using the standard axis.
Jim
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Fabio Monteiro
<fabio.monteiro1992 at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi
>
> i'm trying to plot my data in R and i can't manage to scale the x
axis.
>
> My x axis are dates, months and years, and when I plot I only have the x
> axis like this (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010).
>
> I whant every date in the axis not only those years, i want to see every
> point with the respectively date in the axis.
>
> How can I do that?
>
> Kind regards
>
> F?bio monteiro
>
> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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