thanks for the reply. here is subset of the data that i want to plot: date usgs700 1 10/1/2000 0.050970325 2 10/2/2000 0.041059428 3 10/3/2000 0.032564374 4 10/4/2000 0.02775051 . . . . .
4014 9/27/2011 0 4015 9/28/2011 0 4016 9/29/2011 0 4017 9/30/2011 0 my script again is: setwd("J:/Rstuff/flow") flow=read.delim("flow.dat",header=TRUE,sep="\t") plot(flow$usgs1500~as.Date(flow$date, "%m/%d/%y"),type="l",xlab="date",ylab="daily discharge (m3/s) ",main="USGS1500",yaxs="i", xaxs="i",) i wish to plot all this data as a single time series but my program is doing some weird stuff and the x-axis has labels Jan-dec and the long term series is broken and plotted on yearly basis. regards vibhava -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/need-help-with-a-time-series-plotting-problem-tp4230672p4231285.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.