Re: [R] Date Inconsistencies? Buglets?

2010-08-21 Thread ivo welch
This would make a nice feature for the next R release---a parameter that overrides the default choice for the number of ticks or labels on the axes. since it has to be calculated already, this should not be hard---spoken by someone without knowledge of the innards, of course. /iaw On Sat, Aug 21

Re: [R] Date Inconsistencies? Buglets?

2010-08-21 Thread Jim Lemon
On 08/21/2010 12:35 AM, ivo welch wrote: ... (PS: Is there an easier way to tell R that I want a whole lot more tick marks and/or labels than what it gives me by default?) Hi Ivo, I haven't been able to find a way to make the axis function print more tick mark labels than it wants to. That's w

Re: [R] Date Inconsistencies? Buglets?

2010-08-20 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 10:35 -0400, ivo welch wrote: > The treatment of dates seems to be a little inconsistent in R 2.11.1 > (2010-05-31): > > [2] How do dates on axes work? > > > plot( c(as.Date(1:20, origin="1970-01-01")), 1:20 ) > > axis( side=3, c(as.Date(1:20, origin="1970-01-01"))) >

Re: [R] Date Inconsistencies? Buglets?

2010-08-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:35 AM, ivo welch wrote: > The treatment of dates seems to be a little inconsistent in R 2.11.1 > (2010-05-31): > > [1] The choice of origins? > >  > as.integer(as.Date("1970-01-01")) > > works and assumes as origin 1970-01-01.  However, > >  > as.Date(1) The zoo package

[R] Date Inconsistencies? Buglets?

2010-08-20 Thread ivo welch
The treatment of dates seems to be a little inconsistent in R 2.11.1 (2010-05-31): [1] The choice of origins? > as.integer(as.Date("1970-01-01")) works and assumes as origin 1970-01-01. However, > as.Date(1) does not work. It requires an origin (as.Date(1, origin="1970-01-01")). If we