Try this (in reality you would use the commented line
in place of the subsequent line) and then read the three
zoo vignettes and R News 4/1.
library(zoo)
library(chron)
Lines <- "Date pH
1/02/1998 5.5
5/03/1998 5
8/12/1998 6
1/02/1999 6.1
08/10/2000 7.2"
# z <- read.zoo("myfile.dat", header = TRUE, format = "%m/%d/%Y")
z <- read.zoo(textConnection(Lines), header = TRUE, format = "%m/%d/%Y")
plot(z)
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Lathouri, Maria
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> My name is Maria Lathouri and I am currently doing a PhD at Imperial College
> of London about time series of environmental variables in surface waters. I
> am trying to do some time plots with R but it seems that it is not working.
> The problem is that the time is not regular, for example, a small dataset can
> be seen below:
> Date pH
> 1/02/1998 5.5
> 5/03/1998 5
> 8/12/1998 6
> 1/02/1999 6.1
> ...
> 08/10/2000 7.2
>
> I have used the function >plot(DATE, pH) and then >lines(pH), but the line
> does not join the points. I have used many combinations, e.g. >plot(DATE, pH)
> and then >lines(DATE, pH), where I get a plot with full of lines inside or
> just >plot(pH) and then >lines(pH) where the line connects the points but in
> x-axis I do not have the DATE. It says Index from 0 to 80.
>
> Do you know if there is a function where I can have in x-axis the DATE
> (irregular dates) and in y-axis the variable with a continuous line, showing
> how it changes through time?
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