An experiment: load 'plot'
y=:sin 0.1*x=:i.365 ms=:0,+/\31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31 pd'reset' pd 'xticpos ',":ms pd 'xlabel Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec " "' pd x;y pd 'show' An alternate alignment fudge could be pd 'xlabel " Jan" " Feb" " Mar" " Apr" " May" " Jun" " Jul" " Aug" " Sep" " Oct" " Nov" " Dec" " "' https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Studio/Plot https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Plot On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 4:09 AM Pablo Landherr <pablo.landh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a time series of 365 data points corresponding to the days of the > year. I'm struggling with creating useful and readable labels for the > x-axis. Using the default I get them numbered 0 - 364 with labels at every > 50th tick mark. This is very readable, but not so useful as it takes a > while to realise that 250 equals September 8 or that May 1 is 120. On the > other hand, if I specify all 365 dates as x-labels, they overwrite each > other and are impossible to read. Ideally, I would like the start (and end) > of each month to be shown. Individual dates are not so important, but > making it clear where the months are would be helpful. Any suggestions on > how to achieve this? > > Kind regards, > Pablo L > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
