monthplot {stats}R Documentation

Plot a Seasonal or other Subseries

Description

These functions plot seasonal (or other) subseries of a time series. For each season (or other category), a time series is plotted.

Usage

monthplot(x, labels = NULL, times, phase, base, choice, ...)

Arguments

x Time series or related object.
labels Labels to use for each “season”.
times Time of each observation.
phase Indicator for each “season”.
base Function to use for reference line for subseries.
choice Which series of an stl or StructTS object?
... Graphical parameters.

Details

These functions extract subseries from a time series and plot them all in one frame. The ts, stl, and StructTS methods use the internally recorded frequency and start and finish times to set the scale and the seasons. The default method assumes observations come in groups of 12 (though this can be changed).

If the labels are not given but the phase is given, then the labels default to the unique values of the phase. If both are given, then the phase values are assumed to be indices into the labels array, i.e., they should be in the range from 1 to length(labels).

Value

These functions are executed for their side effect of drawing a seasonal subseries plot on the current graphical window.

Author(s)

Duncan Murdoch

References

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

See Also

ts, stl, StructTS

Examples

## The CO2 data
data(co2)
fit <- stl(log(co2), s.window = 20, t.window = 20)
plot(fit)
op <- par(mfrow = c(2,2))
monthplot(co2, ylab = "data", cex.axis = 0.8)
monthplot(fit, choice = "seasonal", cex.axis = 0.8)
monthplot(fit, choice = "trend", cex.axis = 0.8)
monthplot(fit, choice = "remainder", type = "h", cex.axis = 0.8)
par(op)

## The CO2 data, grouped quarterly
quarter <- (cycle(co2) - 1) %/% 3
monthplot(co2, phase = quarter)

## see also JohnsonJohnson

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