sorry about the change in variable name (data has column named usgs700 but
code has usgs700). actually i am trying to get familiar with R as i need to
make more complex time series plots in near future (stackplots, scatterplot
etc.). Let me try to explain what i am intending to achieve here. below i
have copied first few lines of a large dataset (daily flow records for 4017
days at 8 usgs locations). first column is date and rest of them are flow
data measured at these 8 different location. now all i wish to do is to read
them in and make time series plots for the entire period of record for each
stations. i have attached some figures that i made in excel and i wish to do
something like this using R. 

I know my code might have some errors and that's the reason why i am
requesting for help from people who know R better than I do. i am R user for
less than a day but i know what i am trying to do is really simple and all i
need is to read 9 columns and make a simple time series plot.

i would appreciate if anyone can correct the code that i have written below
or if they have some alternate way of doing this i would be happy to learn
something new

regards

vibhava

Date    USGS700 USGS1000        USGS1500        USGS 1898       USGS1975        
USGS2500        USGS2700        USGS2800
10/1/2000       0.05    0.57    2.32    2.27    4.11    29.45   29.45   29.45
10/2/2000       0.04    0.54    2.12    1.70    4.05    29.17   29.17   29.17
10/3/2000       0.03    0.48    1.93    1.98    3.96    28.88   28.88   28.88
10/4/2000       0.03    0.45    1.76    1.42    3.91    28.60   28.60   28.60
10/5/2000       0.03    0.42    1.64    1.27    3.82    28.32   28.32   28.32
10/6/2000       0.03    0.42    1.53    1.13    3.74    28.26   28.26   28.26
10/7/2000       0.11    0.51    1.59    5.66    3.68    28.23   28.23   28.23
10/8/2000       0.16    0.45    1.70    3.40    3.62    27.84   27.84   27.84
10/9/2000       0.10    0.42    1.78    2.55    3.54    26.56   26.56   26.56

> setwd("J:/Rstuff/flow")                                                       
>                              
> # defining the working directory
> flow=read.delim("flow.dat",header=TRUE,sep="\t")                             
> # opening the above tab separated data file
> 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")                                         
>              
> #just to test my code, i am trying to make time series   
                                                                                
                                                    
#plot of 1 variable USGS1500

http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4231737/flow.docx flow.docx 

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