A specialized variant of axis.POSIXct that produces
results with less ambiguity in axis labels.
oce.axis.POSIXct(side, x, at, tformat, labels = TRUE, drawTimeRange,
abbreviateTimeRange = FALSE, drawFrequency = FALSE,
cex = par("cex"), cex.axis = par("cex.axis"),
cex.main = par("cex.main"), mar = par("mar"), mgp = par("mgp"),
main = "", debug = getOption("oceDebug"), ...)as for axis.POSIXct.
as for axis.POSIXct.
as for axis.POSIXct.
as format for axis.POSIXct for now, but
may eventually have new features for multiline labels, e.g. day on one line
and month on another.
as for axis.POSIXct.
Optional indication of whether/how to draw the time range
in the margin on the side of the the plot opposite the time axis. If this is
not supplied, it defaults to the value returned by
getOption("oceDrawTimeRange"), and if that option is not set,
it defaults to TRUE. No time range is drawn if drawTimeRange is FALSE.
If it is TRUE, the range will be shown. This range refers to
range of the x axis (not the data). The format of the elements of that range is set by
getOption("oceTimeFormat") (or with the default value
of an empty string, if this option has not been set). The timezone will
be indicated if the time range is under a week. For preliminary work, it makes
sense to use drawTimeRange=TRUE, but for published work it can be better
to drop this label and indicate something about the time in the figure caption.
boolean, TRUE to abbreviate the second
number in the time range, e.g. dropping the year if it is the same in the
first number.
boolean, TRUE to show the frequency of sampling
in the data
size of labels on axes; see par("cex").
see par("cex.axis").
see par("cex.main").
value for par(mar) for axis
value for par(mgp) for axis
title of plot
a flag that turns on debugging. Set to 1 to get a moderate amount of debugging information, or to 2 to get more.
as for axis.POSIXct.
A vector of times corresponding to axis ticks is returned silently.
The tick marks are set automatically based on examination of the time range on the axis. The scheme was devised by constructing test cases with a typical plot size and font size, and over a wide range of time scales. In some categories, both small tick marks are interspersed between large ones.
The user may set the format of axis numbers with the tformat argument.
If this is not supplied, the format is set based on the time span of the axis:
If this time span is less than a minute, the time axis labels are in
seconds (fractional seconds, if the interval is less than 2 seconds), with
leading zeros on small integers. (Fractional seconds are enabled with a trick:
the usual R format "%S" is supplemented with a new format e.g.
"%.2S", meaning to use two digits after the decimal.)
If the time span exceeds a minute but is less than 1.5 days, the label
format is "%H:%M:%S".
If the time span exceeds 1.5 days but is less than 1 year, the format is
"%b %d" (e.g. Jul 15) and, again, the tick marks are set up for several
subcategories.
If the time span exceeds a year, the format is "%Y", i.e. the year
is displayed with 4 digits.
It should be noted that this scheme differs from the R approach in several ways. First, R writes day names for some time ranges, in a convention that is seldom seen in the literature. Second, R will write nn:mm for both HH:MM and MM:SS, an ambiguity that might confuse readers. Third, the use of both large and small tick marks is not something that R does.
Bear in mind that tformat may be set to alter the number format, but
that the tick mark scheme cannot (presently) be controlled.
This is used mainly by oce.plot.ts.