I am an experienced SAS and SAS/GRAPH programmer who is learning S-PLUS
2000 R3 on Windows 2000. I have read all of the S-PLUS 2000 manuals as
well as two books by independent authors ("Modern Applied Statistics
with S-PLUS" by Venables and Ripley and "Visualizing Data" by
Cleveland). I can't find enough documentation about how to control
presentation quality graphs. I'm particularly interested in time series
graphs. Would someone please recommend some documentation on the
mechanics of this process? It appears to me that S-PLUS doesn't offer
nearly the range of graphics controls that SAS/GRAPH does.
For example, I have weekly data spanning many years. I'd like to
present the weekly data using an x-axis labeled with the years. I'd
like the x-axis to start on January 1 of the first year, even though the
data starts mid-year. I'd like the x-axis to stop on December 31 of the
last year, even though the data stops mid-year. I've tried storing the
data as a data frame, simple vector, and cts.
I've noticed many queries about controlling graphics in the list server
archives. Most of them went unanswered. It appears that either there
isn't much of an answer (i.e., S-PLUS is deficient in this area) or the
list server participants aren't interested in this area. I'm hoping
that it isn't the first.
Thanks for your help!
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