> From: PackRat
>
> Ric Sherlock wrote:
> > How about something like this?
> >
> > Months=: 'Jan Feb Mar Apr May'
> > Days=: 31 28 31 30 31
> > Xticpos=: ": +/\ }: 0,Days
> > Values=: (+/Days) ?...@$ 100
> > ('xticpos ',Xticpos,';xlabel ',Months) plot Values
> > Or:
> > ('xticpos ',Xticpos,';xlabel ',Months,';xtic 30 1') plot Values
>
> How would the interior lines (Days, Xticpos, Values) need to be changed
> if the data were instead a table with two columns: Date (format YYYY-
> MM-
> DD) and Value? For even greater flexibility, assume that NOT every
> date (including occasionally the first day) within a month has any data
> (I'm thinking of stock market data as one example). I presume that
> somehow you'd have to check for a change in the month and use that to
> calculate the Xticpos? I'm VERY interested in seeing your solution!
> Thanks in advance!
Use dates.ijs to convert dates to day numbers.
1st of the month of earliest date is base date - subtract from day numbers to
get x values corresponding to y values you want to plot.
Subtract the base date daynumber from day number of the 1st of each month to
get the Xticpos.
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