ts Object

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AGJ60

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Mar 3, 2010, 10:10:00 AM3/3/10

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A basic question: how to handle ts objects?

Take, for instance:
> data(AirPassengers)
> AP<-AirPassengers
> class(AP)
[1] "ts"
> AP
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1949 112 118 132 129 121 135 148 148 136 119 104 118
1950 115 126 141 135 125 149 170 170 158 133 114 140
1951 145 150 178 163 172 178 199 199 184 162 146 166
1952 171 180 193 181 183 218 230 242 209 191 172 194
1953 196 196 236 235 229 243 264 272 237 211 180 201
1954 204 188 235 227 234 264 302 293 259 229 203 229
1955 242 233 267 269 270 315 364 347 312 274 237 278
1956 284 277 317 313 318 374 413 405 355 306 271 306
1957 315 301 356 348 355 422 465 467 404 347 305 336
1958 340 318 362 348 363 435 491 505 404 359 310 337
1959 360 342 406 396 420 472 548 559 463 407 362 405
1960 417 391 419 461 472 535 622 606 508 461 390 432
> plot(AP) # produces a well-behaved line chart with years x AP
> qplot(AP) # produces a histogram of AP, and the following message:
stat_bin: binwidth defaulted to range/30. Use 'binwidth = x' to adjust
this.
> qplot(AP, geom="line") # produces an error:
Erro: tentativa de aplicar uma não-função (Error: attempt to apply a
non-function)

What am I doing wrong?

Brian Diggs

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Mar 3, 2010, 3:20:09 PM3/3/10

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ggplot2 basically only knows how to deal with data.frame's (in the
ggplot function) or plain vectors (in the qplot function). qplot is
ignoring the attributes that make AirPassengers a ts object and is
just looking at the values. Given a single vector, qplot assumes that
you want to make a histogram of it, so that is what it does. If you
explicitly give it the times and the values as two vectors, it will
work:

qplot(time(AirPassengers), AirPassengers) # by default, a scatterplot
qplot(time(AirPassengers), AirPassengers, geom="line") # similar to
plot(AirPassengers)

ggplot2 does have a mechanism for taking other data types and turning
them into a data.frame that it can work with: the fortify family of
functions. You can create one for ts objects and then be able to use
AirPassengers in a ggplot construct:

fortify.ts <- function(model, data, ...) {
cbind(data.frame(time = time(model)), as.data.frame(model))
}

ggplot(AirPassengers, aes(x=time, y=x)) + geom_line()

I haven't tested this fortify function on other time series objects,
but it seems like it should work.