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Hey David, I've just started using R and one thing that I've been looking for is a way to display discrete events on a timeline. It doesn't have to be anythin

Hey David, I've just started using R and one thing that I've been looking for is a way to display discrete events on a timeline. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, all I want is to put hours/days on one axis and then put a marker and some text above it. Do you know of any built in libraries that do that? Something like this: http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ but it doesn't have to be near that nice.. Thanks in advance

rosenbergdm 16y ago
One of the best all-around plotting packages for R (in my opinion) is Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 . Take a look at the following pages: http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/scale_datetime.html http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/scale_datetime.html http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/geom_line.html http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/geom_line.html While not specifically inentended as a 'time-series' package, ggplot2's facilities handle time-series data well. Ggplot2 is available on CRAN (i.e. install.packages('ggplot2'); ). In truth, you don't even have to use a special package if the 'prettiness isn't important.' df <- data.frame( day7 = start + round(runif(100, max = 7 * 86400)), hour10 = start + round(runif(100, max = 10 * 3600)), y = runif(100) ); plot(df$day7, df$y); plot(df$hour10, df$y);
- dantheman 16y ago
  Excellent, thanks.