Hi, Don I got it, I will try and study . Thanks very much.
From: MacQueen, Don Date: 2018-10-30 00:01 To: snowball0916; r-help Subject: Re: [R] date and time data on x axis Here's an example of 24 hours of data at one second intervals. npts <- 24*60*60 df <- data.frame( tm = seq( Sys.time(), by='1 sec', length=npts), yd = round(runif(npts),2) ) head(df) with(df, plot(tm,yd)) The x axis appears to me to be displayed in a neat and clean way. I don't understand what the problem is. (The data itself is illegible, but that's a different problem.) The default axis may not be what you want, but it is neat and clean. To choose the axis tick marks and labels yourself, use axis() or axis.POSIXct, as Rui mentioned. help(axis.POSIXct) provides examples of actual use. I prefer to do as much as possible with base R, so look at this example: > as.POSIXct( '20181028_10:00:00' , format='%Y%m%d_%H:%M:%S') [1] "2018-10-28 10:00:00 PDT" Therefore xdata <- as.POSIXct(mydata$V1, format='%Y%m%d_%H:%M:%S') is perfectly adequate (the lubridate package is not essential here) par() is the function that sets graphical parameters. There are many graphical parameters. "mar" is the parameter that specifies the sizes of the plot margins ( see ?par ) This expression op <- par(mar = c(4, 0, 0, 0) + par("mar")) is a way to modify the values of the "mar" parameter. Type the following commands par('mar') par()$mar ## an alternative c(4,0,0,0) + par('mar') par(mar = c(4, 0, 0, 0) + par("mar")) par('mar') ## to see that the margins have been changed -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 Lab cell 925-724-7509 On 10/28/18, 8:16 AM, "R-help on behalf of snowball0916" <r-help-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of snowball0...@163.com> wrote: Hi, guys How do you guys deal with the date and time data on x axis? I have some trouble with it. Could you help with this? ============= Sample Data ============= The sample data look like this: 20181028_10:00:00 600 20181028_10:00:01 500 20181028_10:00:02 450 20181028_10:00:03 660 ...... ============= My Code ============= library(lubridate) mydata <- read.table("e:/R_study/graph_test2.txt") xdata <- ymd_hms(mydata$V1) ydata <- mydata$V2 plot(xdata, ydata, type="o") ============= Questions: ============= 1. Why my x axis does not show me the correct date time like ""2018-10-28 10:00:00 UTC" ? 2. If my data is very huge(like data in every second and the data has the whole day , even the whole month), how can I display the x axis in a neat and clean way? Thanks very much. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.