Hi all,
The default display of random dates with breaks="months" is less than optimal.
set.seed(20141024)
random.dates <- as.Date("2001/1/1") + round(365*stats::runif(100))
hist(random.dates, "months")
The 13 edges of the 12 bars are labelled "Dec", "Jan", "Feb", ..., "Nov", "Dec".
The first bar represents the number of days in January, the label on the RIGHT
edge of the bar.
It is clear what is happening if the format is changed.
hist(random.dates, "months", format = "%d %b", las=2)
The labels are now "Dec 31", "Jan 31", "Feb 28", .... which isn't intuitive to
me.
I'd rather have this as the default behavior (but without having to explicitly
create the breaks)
hist(random.dates, breaks=as.Date(c(paste("2001",1:12,"1",sep="/"),
"2002/1/1")), right=FALSE)
hist(random.dates, breaks=as.Date(c(paste("2001",1:12,"1",sep="/"),
"2002/1/1")), right=FALSE, format = "%d %b", las=2)
I guess none of that is a question. Have a nice weekend.
Chris
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.1.1
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