Hi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal dne 14.07.2008 14:37:36:
> Many thanks for the recent answers to my question about pattern
recognition.
> The hint to "grep" and the "pattern" argument brought me a big deal
forward.
>
> # Now, I have a data frame:
>
> DATE <- c("1930-01-01", "1930-01-01", "1930-02-01", "1931-01-01",
> "1931-02-01", "1931-03-01") # almost all months until "1999-12-01". Day
is
> always 01, the same months actually occur several times.
> FREQ <- rep(1,6)
> ex<- data.frame(DATE,FREQ)
>
Your DATE is not in Date format. See as.Date
ex$Date<-as.Date(ex$DATE)
> # I can aggregate it like this:
>
> ex <- tapply(ex$FREQ, ex$DATE, sum)
ex1<-tapply(ex$FREQ, cut(ex$Date, "years"), sum)
ex1<-tapply(ex$FREQ, format(ex$Date, "%Y"), sum)
gives you yearly aggregates
>
> # or use"grep" to extract a single year:
> # ex[grep(pattern="^1931", ex$DATE),]
>
> # But how can I aggregate the years such that a barplot would show me
the
> FREQ per year and not per month?
>
> barplot(as.vector(ex))
barplot(ex1)
could be what you want.
Regards
Petr
>
> # Sorry for the bad example, of course my data.frame is much bigger and
the
> barplot gives me a nice monthly time series of events, but I really only
want
> the occurrences per year, not per month.
>
> Grateful for your advice!
> Friderike
>
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