[changeset]: Re: Octave plot on time/date x-axis

[David Bateman]

Bill Denney wrote:
> David Bateman wrote:
>   
>> Bill Denney wrote:
>>     
>>> If you install the financial package, you can use the dateaxis command
>>> which likely does what you're wanting to do.
>>>       
>> How does dateaxis differ from the dateticks function?  Taking a quick
>> look at the matlab help pages, I can see that much of a difference in
>> them. Perhaps we should migrate dateaxis to Octave as the dateticks
>> command and make dateaxis depend on dateticks?
>>     
>
> It differs in that I didn't know about it when I was implementing
> dateaxis.  You're right that it's a good idea to migrate it to Octave
> and have dateaxis be a call to datetick.  I probably won't be able to do
> it soon, though because I'm moving in the next 1.5 weeks.
>
> Have a good day,
>
> Bill
>
>   
How about something like the attached? Notice that for datetick we have 
to calculate the tick positions ourselves manually as they should fall 
of reasonable times. I've attempted to do this in this version, but it 
probably needs some work.

With this changeset dateaxis can then be implemented as

function varargout = dateaxis (varargin);
    [varargout{:}] = datetick (varargin{:});
endfunction

In any case this was based heavily on your dateaxis code Bill.

Cheers
David


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