Hi David, That's it!!! The outcome is attached. Many thanks please.
Best Ogbos On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:34 PM David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > On Sep 19, 2018, at 7:55 AM, Ogbos Okike <giftedlife2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Dear Experts, > > I generated the plot attached. Every other thing is OK except the black > > horizontal lines which should appear like points or dots as the coloured > > ones. I can't understand why. > > > > I tried to change it to look like dots by calling empty plots so that I > > will add them as points. > > > > Since I have a range of date that can fall any where within 2005, I > tried: > > > > plot(1, type="n", xlab="", ylab="", > > xlim=c(as.Date("2005-01-01"),as.Date("2005-12-31")), ylim=c(-.5, -10)) > > > > ylim worked fine but xlim instead of appearing like date as indicated on > > the x-axes of the attached plot, translated to ordinary numbers (12800, > > 12900,13000, 13100). > > > > All the data is of the same format: > > 2005-01-04 -2.76105935648091 > > 2005-01-19 -9.60813496025994 > > 2005-01-22 -7.92101965866777 > > 2005-02-19 -1.61308152604905 > > 2005-02-24 -1.51497015807712 > > 2005-05-09 -2.06465797304654 > > 2005-05-11 -1.14840389007051 > > 2005-05-16 -3.85281900888504 > > 2005-06-13 -1.18659683796617 > > 2005-06-17 -3.48787712566258 > > 2005-06-22 -1.14223758296308 > > 2005-07-18 -4.96013018907366 > > 2005-08-03 -1.24313324914368 > > 2005-08-07 -2.96672894841722 > > 2005-08-10 -1.11868063781156 > > 2005-08-25 -1.46453734930983 > > 2005-09-13 -8.00895215754776 > > 2005-09-15 -6.63439065989452 > > 2005-10-13 -2.25054996925846 > > 2005-12-15 -1.08933890547705 > > You did not succeed in creating a plot that the rhelp mail server would > accept. My guess is that the first column is a factor variable and that you > did not use colClasses when doing your data input. > > dd <- read.table(text="2005-01-04 -2.76105935648091 > 2005-01-19 -9.60813496025994 > 2005-01-22 -7.92101965866777 > 2005-02-19 -1.61308152604905 > 2005-02-24 -1.51497015807712 > 2005-05-09 -2.06465797304654 > 2005-05-11 -1.14840389007051 > 2005-05-16 -3.85281900888504 > 2005-06-13 -1.18659683796617 > 2005-06-17 -3.48787712566258 > 2005-06-22 -1.14223758296308 > 2005-07-18 -4.96013018907366 > 2005-08-03 -1.24313324914368 > 2005-08-07 -2.96672894841722 > 2005-08-10 -1.11868063781156 > 2005-08-25 -1.46453734930983 > 2005-09-13 -8.00895215754776 > 2005-09-15 -6.63439065989452 > 2005-10-13 -2.25054996925846 > 2005-12-15 -1.08933890547705", colClasses=c("Date","numeric") > ) > > > No problems with: > > plot(dd[[1]], dd[[2]], > xlim=c(as.Date("2005-01-01"),as.Date("2005-12-31"))) > > > (Not a particularly good test of the use of an xlim argument since nothing > was excluded.) > > PDF's are accepted. PNGs are not. > > -- > David. > > > > Thank you so much for your input. > > > > Best regards > > Ogbos > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.' > -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law > > > > > >
Ogbos.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
______________________________________________ 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.