Hi Gregory, Here's a start: gcdf<-read.table(text="2020-01-05 15.973 2020-02-15 18.832 2020-03-10 17.392 2020-05-04 14.774 2020-06-21 19.248 2020-08-01 14.913 2020-08-27 15.226 2020-09-28 14.338 2020-11-09 18.777 2020-12-11 19.652", header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE, col.names=c("date","gallons")) gcdf$date<-as.Date(gcdf$date,"%Y-%m-%d") plot(gcdf$date,gcdf$gallons,main="Gallons by date", xlab="Date",ylab="Gallons")
Jim On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:33 AM Gregory Coats via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > Starting with year-month-day, for the variable gallons, I can easily plot the > variable gallons, while disregarding the date. > gallons <- c (15.973, 18.832, 17.392, 14.774, 19.248, 14.913, 15.226, 14.338, > 18.777, 19.652) > plot (gallons, type="l", xlab="X label", ylab="Y label", col="blue”) > > How do I direct R to plot the variable gallons, at the appropriate, > irregularly-spaced places on the X axis, while paying attention to the > year-month-day? > > format = "%Y-%m-%d” > 2020-01-05 15.973 > 2020-02-15 18.832 > 2020-03-10 17.392 > 2020-05-04 14.774 > 2020-06-21 19.248 > 2020-08-01 14.913 > 2020-08-27 15.226 > 2020-09-28 14.338 > 2020-11-09 18.777 > 2020-12-11 19.652 > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.