[R] Problems plotting and regression w.r.t. date data type on x axis

[PIKAL Petr]

Hi

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> Subject: Re: [R] Problems plotting and regression w.r.t. date data type
> on x axis
> 
> Hello Petr!
> 
> thanks a lot for your help. The plot command plots well, but the abline
> returns without error and does nothing.
> 
> > str(tabelle)
> 'data.frame':   4 obs. of  3 variables:
>  $ date  : Factor w/ 4 levels "2009-01-1","2009-12-1",..: 1 2 3 4  $
> number: int  1673 2111 2487 4301  $ date2 : POSIXlt, format: "2009-01-
> 01" "2009-12-01" ...

As expected date is factor, number is numeric and date2 is POSIXlt format.


> > plot(tabelle$date2,tabelle$number, pch=19, xlab="date of retrieval",
> > ylab="number of animals") regression.punkte<-lm(tabelle$number ~
> > as.Date(tabelle$date)) regression.punkte

Here you are plotting number against POSIX date2.


> 
> Call:
> lm(formula = tabelle$number ~ as.Date(tabelle$date))

Here you use date probably converted by as.Date. Why you do not use 

lm(number ~ date2, data = tabelle)

which is usual form of model formula.

Try also change date2 by as.POSIXct.

Regards
Petr

> 
> Coefficients:
>           (Intercept)  as.Date(tabelle$date)
>            -24046.326                  1.799
> 
> > abline(regression.punkte, lwd=2)
> >
> 
> 
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