[R] adding infrequent date labels to x-axis

[Hrishi Mittal]

Hi emorway,

You are right. I tried the command only with one year's data, in which case
it plots month names as labels. But for multiple years, the labels become
years. I found this old post useful -
http://n4.nabble.com/Month-tick-marks-on-a-plot-td879121.html#a879121.
Picking the code from the comment by Gavin Simson, I think this should work:


plot(as.Date(cropped.cast1$date,"%Y-%m-%d"),cropped.cast1$Frac_ET_Satsfd_mean,xaxt="n") 

x<-as.Date(cropped.cast1$date,"%Y-%m-%d")

ticks.at <- seq(min(x), max(x), by = "months")
## format the labels as abbreviated month names
ticks.lab <- format(ticks.at, format = "%b")
## indicator variable; is month January?
m1 <- ticks.lab == "Jan"
## plot small ticks and labels for months not Jan
Axis(x, at = ticks.at[!m1], side = 1,
     labels = ticks.lab[!m1], las = 2, cex.axis = 0.7)
## plot the default tick locations for years
Axis(x, side = 1, las = 2)
## add the box 
box()



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