[Rd] proposal for new axis.Date/axis.POSIXct

2010-02-03 Thread Felix Andrews
[reposting after holiday period] -- Forwarded message -- From: Felix Andrews fe...@nfrac.org Date: 21 December 2009 23:44 Subject: proposal for new axis.Date/axis.POSIXct To: r-devel@r-project.org Hi R-devel. I've noticed a couple of quirks in the current time/date axis

[Rd] proposal for new axis.Date/axis.POSIXct

2009-12-21 Thread Felix Andrews
Hi R-devel. I've noticed a couple of quirks in the current time/date axis functions (axis.Date, axis.POSIXct, and the equivalents in lattice). Looking at the code, it seems like a fairly ad-hoc approach, often using pretty() on components of the time. This is not always ideal - for example a