Message-ID: <4BB3A97E.5020108@braverock.com>
Date: 2010-03-31T19:58:54Z
From: Brian G. Peterson
Subject: plot log scale on y axis using zoo object (with plot.zoo)
In-Reply-To: <w2m676b0d531003311240lb6c31eacz650eb10986901aae@mail.gmail.com>
try chartSeries with log.scale=TRUE
On 03/31/2010 02:40 PM, Pierre Lapointe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to plot a times series with a log on the y-axis. I'm plotting a zoo
> object as it is easier to format the dates on the x-axis. Unfortunately,
> log="y" does not work with plot.zoo. Any idea?
>
> Here's a reproducible example
>
> x<-seq(1,10000,length.out=10)
> plot(x,log="y",type="l") #works
>
> z<- zoo(seq(1,10000,length.out=10),
> as.Date(c("1992-01-10", "1992-01-17", "1992-01-24", "1992-01-31",
> "1992-02-07", "1992-02-14", "1992-02-21", "1992-02-28", "1992-03-06",
> "1992-03-13")))
> plot(z,log="y") #gives error
>
> #Warning message:
> #In plot.xy(xy.coords(x, y), type = type, ...) :
> # "log" is not a graphical parameter
>
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