pretty.Date
Pretty Breakpoints for Date-Time Classes
Description
Compute a sequence of about n+1
equally spaced ‘nice’ values which cover the range of the values in x
, possibly of length one, when min.n = 0
and there is only one unique x
.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'Date' pretty(x, n = 5, min.n = n %/% 2, sep = " ", ...) ## S3 method for class 'POSIXt' pretty(x, n = 5, min.n = n %/% 2, sep = " ", ...)
Arguments
x | an object of class |
n | integer giving the desired number of intervals. |
min.n | nonnegative integer giving the minimal number of intervals. |
sep | character string, serving as a separator for certain formats (e.g., between month and year). |
... | further arguments for compatibility with the generic, ignored. |
Value
A vector (of the suitable class) of locations, with attribute "labels"
giving corresponding formatted character labels.
See Also
pretty
for the default method.
Examples
pretty(Sys.Date()) pretty(Sys.time(), n = 10) pretty(as.Date("2000-03-01")) # R 1.0.0 came in a leap year ## time ranges in diverse scales:% also in ../../../../tests/reg-tests-1c.R require(stats) steps <- setNames(, c("10 secs", "1 min", "5 mins", "30 mins", "6 hours", "12 hours", "1 DSTday", "2 weeks", "1 month", "6 months", "1 year", "10 years", "50 years", "1000 years")) x <- as.POSIXct("2002-02-02 02:02") lapply(steps, function(s) { at <- pretty(seq(x, by = s, length.out = 2), n = 5) attr(at, "labels") })
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