| pretty.Date {grDevices} | R Documentation |
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.
## 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 = " ", ...)
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. |
A vector (of the suitable class) of locations, with attribute
"labels" giving corresponding formatted character labels.
pretty for the default method.
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 = 2), n = 5)
attr(at, "labels")
})