See ?identify and ?locator
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 6:47 PM snowball0916 <snowball0...@163.com> wrote:
> Hi, Don
> After I've tried 1 month data. It show me like attachment.
>
> The problem is it's hard to identify the the high point from the graph.
> Is there possible, when my cursor move on some point , it will show me
> both x axis and y axis data?
> OR
> Is there other way to get the same goal?
>
> 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
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> 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.
>
>
>
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