On 2/5/08, Alex Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have encountered the following behaviour in lattice in 2.6.1 (and
> 2.4.0) which differs depending upon the type you use. I believe the
> numeric behaviour to be correct, and the POSIXct behaviour to be in
> error.
>
> When the x data and x axis in a lattice graph are POSIXct, and when
> using scales$x$at and scales$x$labels to add custom labels:
>
> If the first visible at value is not the first specified at value (due
> to x limit settings), the first visible label nonetheless receives the
> first specified label, instead of the label corresponding to the first
> visible at.
Yes, the relevant "POSIXct" method was subsetting 'at' to lie within
the specified limits but not 'labels'. Should be fixed in the next
update. Thanks,
-Deepayan
> In the following example, at = baseval + 1:4, label = letters[1:4]
>
> I have set it up so that baseval + 1:2 are not visible in the graph
>
> for numeric and Date types, the visible labels are letters[3:4] - ie
> "c" "d"
>
> for POSIXct, the visible labels are letters[1:3] - "a" "b".
>
>
> Simplest to show this by example:
>
> # numeric
>
> baseval=0;
> xyplot(1:10 ~ (baseval + 1:10) , scales=list(x=list
> (at=baseval+1:4, labels=letters[1:4])),xlim=baseval+c(3,10))
>
> # Date
>
> baseval = as.Date("2007-01-01");
> xyplot(1:10 ~ (baseval + 1:10) , scales=list(x=list
> (at=baseval+1:4, labels=letters[1:4])),xlim=baseval+c(3,10))
>
> # POSIXct
>
> baseval = as.POSIXct("2007-01-01");
> xyplot(1:10 ~ (baseval + 1:10) , scales=list(x=list
> (at=baseval+1:4, labels=letters[1:4])),xlim=baseval+c(3,10))
>
> in particular, compare the Date and POSIXct versions
>
> -Alex Brown
>
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