R: Descriptive Plots

descriptive-plots {bsts} | R Documentation

## Descriptive Plots

### Description

Plots for describing time series data.

### Usage

      DayPlot(y, colors = NULL, ylab = NULL, ...)
      MonthPlot(y, seasonal.identifier = months, colors = NULL, ylab = NULL, ...)
      YearPlot(y, colors = NULL, ylab = NULL, ylim = NULL, legend = TRUE, ...)

### Arguments

`y` | A time series to plot. Must be of class `ts`, or `zoo`. If a zoo object then the timestamps must be of type `Date`, `yearmon`, or `POSIXt`.
`seasonal.identifier` | A function that takes a vector of class `POSIXt` (date/time) and returns a character vector indicating the season to which each element belongs. Each unique element returned by this function returns a "season" to be plotted. See `weekdays`, `months`, and `quarters` for examples of how this should work.
`colors` | A vector of colors to use for the lines.
`legend` | Logical. If `TRUE` then a legend is added to the plot.
`ylab` | Label for the vertical axis.
`ylim` | Limits for the vertical axis. (a 2-vector)
`...` | Extra arguments passed to `plot` or `lines`.

### Details

`DayPlot` and `MonthPlot` plot the time series one season at a time, on the same set of axes. The intent is to use DayPlot for daily data and MonthPlot for monthly or quarterly data.

`YearPlot` plots each year of the time series as a separate line on the same set of axes.

Both sets of plots help visualize seasonal patterns.

### Value

Returns `invisible{NULL}`.

### See Also

`monthplot` is a base R function for plotting time series of type `ts`.

### Examples

    ## Plot a 'ts' time series.
    data(AirPassengers)
    par(mfrow = c(1,2))
    MonthPlot(AirPassengers)
    YearPlot(AirPassengers)

    ## Plot a 'zoo' time series.
    data(turkish)
    par(mfrow = c(1,2))
    YearPlot(turkish)
    DayPlot(turkish)

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