Is the date part of your data a POSIXct object? If so,
plot( myData[,1], myData[,2] ) will label the x axis with dates. See the help pages for date-time class objects: ?POSIXt (POSIXt includes both POSIXct and POSIXlt; I tend to prefer POSIXct and find it the easier of the two to work with, overall) -Don At 1:04 PM -0800 2/28/08, joshv wrote: >Hello, I'm reading Time Series Analysis and its Applilcations with R Examples >and I have a question... > >I notice that in the book there are timeseries plots but without the x-axis >being labeled with dates. They are just numbers 1,...50,...100, etc. How >do I get the date to show up on the x-axis? > >Here is my dateframe: > >> head(myData, 5) > >1 2008-01-30 08:30 7.00 >2 2008-01-30 08:32 9.25 >3 2008-01-30 08:34 5.50 >4 2008-01-30 08:36 5.00 >5 2008-01-30 08:38 -26.25 > >(Also, I have searched using Rseek.org and not found anything to help me. >Any searching advice would be greatly appreciated.) > >-- >View this message in context: >http://www.nabble.com/datetime-on-x-axis-of-plot-tp15745910p15745910.html >Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org 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. -- -------------------------------------- Don MacQueen Environmental Protection Department Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA, USA 925-423-1062 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.