Togaware DATA MINING
Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams
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Plot Time Series

This example creates a time series dataset recording two observations at each time step. The date and times are converted to chron objects, and then a zoo series is created, which is then plotted.

[width=0.8]rplot-time-basic


year <- c(rep(2005,10))
doy  <- c(rep(173,5), rep(174,5))
time <- c(15,30,45,100,115,15,30,45,100,115)
obs1 <- c(0.022128,0.035036,0.051632,0.071916,0.081136,
          0.07837,0.083902,0.126314,0.080214,0.117094)
obs2 <- c(0.533074667,0.887982667,1.284938,1.845450333,2.145839333,
          2.145126667,2.392422,3.60253,2.330776333,3.5277)
obs  <- cbind(year, doy, time, obs1, obs2)



library(chron)
library(zoo)
datetimes <- chron(paste(1, 1, obs[,1], sep="/"), obs[,3]/24) + obs[,2] - 1
zobs <- zoo(obs[,4:5], datetimes)
plot(zobs, plot.type = "single")

http://rattle.togaware.com/code/rplot-time-basic.R



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