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Reputation: 641

How to get x labels from time (time-series)

I am trying to format my x axis.

Say I want to get "MM.YYYY" for every value in x axis in order to use it in axis(), so I:

> test <- ts (c(12,23,45,31,15), start=2012, frequency = 12)

> time(test)
      Jan      Feb      Mar      Apr      May
2012 2012.000 2012.083 2012.167 2012.250 2012.333

My question is, how to convert from say "2012.333" to "05.2012". I tried with:

> strftime(strptime(time(test),"%?.%?"),"%m.%Y")

but I ignore the appropriate variables in "%?.%?"

Upvotes: 3

Views: 111

Answers (1)

G. Grothendieck
G. Grothendieck

Reputation: 270020

Try this:

> library(zoo)
> format(as.yearmon(time(test)), "%m.%Y")
[1] "01.2012" "02.2012" "03.2012" "04.2012" "05.2012"

Upvotes: 3

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