On 07/13/2011 10:08 PM, Kishorenalluri wrote:
Hi Jim, Saving is not a problem. I wanted to load/read the columns from the file followed by plotting the area plot using ggplot2.I am a basic user. I am trying to reproduce the plot similar to the example given here. http://processtrends.com/images/RClimate_NINO_34_latest.png
Hi Kishorenalluri, How about this? # download the data file from NOAA # http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/wksst.for # make the columns match the header row with a global # replace of "-" with " -" (add a space) # then this seems to reproduce the plot you indicated plot(as.Date(sst$Week,"%d%b%Y"),sst$SSTA1,type="h", col=2+2*(sst$SSTA1<0), main="Sea surface anomalies from NOAA", xlab="Year",ylab="Temperature anomaly") Jim ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list 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.

