[R] as.Date and ylim in empty plot: RESOLVED

Ogbos Okike
2018-09-20T05:48:55Z

Hi David,
That's it!!! The outcome is attached.

Many thanks please.

Best
Ogbos

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:34 PM David Winsemius <dwinsemius at
comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> > On Sep 19, 2018, at 7:55 AM, Ogbos Okike <giftedlife2014 at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Experts,
> > I generated the plot attached. Every other thing is OK except the
black
> > horizontal lines which should appear like points or dots as the
coloured
> > ones. I can't understand why.
> >
> > I tried to change it to look like dots by calling empty plots so that
I
> > will add them as points.
> >
> > Since I have a range of date that can fall any where within 2005, I
> tried:
> >
> > plot(1, type="n", xlab="", ylab="",
> >
xlim=c(as.Date("2005-01-01"),as.Date("2005-12-31")),
ylim=c(-.5, -10))
> >
> > ylim worked fine but xlim instead of appearing like date as indicated
on
> > the x-axes of the attached plot, translated to ordinary numbers
(12800,
> > 12900,13000, 13100).
> >
> > All the data is of the same format:
> > 2005-01-04 -2.76105935648091
> > 2005-01-19 -9.60813496025994
> > 2005-01-22 -7.92101965866777
> > 2005-02-19 -1.61308152604905
> > 2005-02-24 -1.51497015807712
> > 2005-05-09 -2.06465797304654
> > 2005-05-11 -1.14840389007051
> > 2005-05-16 -3.85281900888504
> > 2005-06-13 -1.18659683796617
> > 2005-06-17 -3.48787712566258
> > 2005-06-22 -1.14223758296308
> > 2005-07-18 -4.96013018907366
> > 2005-08-03 -1.24313324914368
> > 2005-08-07 -2.96672894841722
> > 2005-08-10 -1.11868063781156
> > 2005-08-25 -1.46453734930983
> > 2005-09-13 -8.00895215754776
> > 2005-09-15 -6.63439065989452
> > 2005-10-13 -2.25054996925846
> > 2005-12-15 -1.08933890547705
>
> You did not succeed in creating a plot that the rhelp mail server would
> accept. My guess is that the first column is a factor variable and that you
> did not use colClasses when doing your data input.
>
> dd <- read.table(text="2005-01-04 -2.76105935648091
> 2005-01-19 -9.60813496025994
> 2005-01-22 -7.92101965866777
> 2005-02-19 -1.61308152604905
> 2005-02-24 -1.51497015807712
> 2005-05-09 -2.06465797304654
> 2005-05-11 -1.14840389007051
> 2005-05-16 -3.85281900888504
> 2005-06-13 -1.18659683796617
> 2005-06-17 -3.48787712566258
> 2005-06-22 -1.14223758296308
> 2005-07-18 -4.96013018907366
> 2005-08-03 -1.24313324914368
> 2005-08-07 -2.96672894841722
> 2005-08-10 -1.11868063781156
> 2005-08-25 -1.46453734930983
> 2005-09-13 -8.00895215754776
> 2005-09-15 -6.63439065989452
> 2005-10-13 -2.25054996925846
> 2005-12-15 -1.08933890547705",
colClasses=c("Date","numeric")
> )
>
>
> No problems with:
>
>  plot(dd[[1]], dd[[2]],
> xlim=c(as.Date("2005-01-01"),as.Date("2005-12-31")))
>
>
> (Not a particularly good test of the use of an xlim argument since nothing
> was excluded.)
>
> PDF's are accepted. PNGs are not.
>
> --
> David.
> >
> > Thank you so much for your input.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Ogbos
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>
> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
>
> 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently
advanced.'
>  -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
>
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