Syed Abid Hussaini wrote: > I have a character "2006-11-06" which was originally scanned from a csv file. > This character is > named date. I now use mtext (date) on a plot and i see strange cluttered > characters instead of
Then it is not a character but some date/time object such as a POSIXlt class. mtext() does not have an appropriate method for it. If this date is x, just plot as.character(x) instead. Uwe Ligges > 2006-11-06. I tried many ways but i dont know whats going on. Then for > testing i made an > artificial character d <- ("2006-11-06") and now when i do mtext (d) it shows > up on the plot. > While both date and d return "2006-11-06" only d shows up on the plots. Any > help would be appreciated. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Have a burning question? > Go to www.Answers.yahoo.com and get answers from real people who know. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.