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1 ## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 David Bateman |
8112 | 2 ## |
3 ## This file is part of Octave. | |
4 ## | |
5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at | |
8 ## your option) any later version. | |
9 ## | |
10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but | |
11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
13 ## General Public License for more details. | |
14 ## | |
15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see | |
17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
18 | |
19 ## -*- texinfo -*- | |
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} datetick () |
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} datetick (@var{form}) |
8112 | 22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} datetick (@var{axis}, @var{form}) |
23 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} datetick (@dots{}, "keeplimits") | |
24 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} datetick (@dots{}, "keepticks") | |
25 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} datetick (@dots{ax}, @dots{}) | |
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26 ## Add date formatted tick labels to an axis. The axis the apply the |
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28 ## "y" or "z". The default value is "x". The formatting of the labels is |
8112 | 29 ## determined by the variable @var{form}, that can either be a string in |
30 ## the format needed by @code{dateform}, or a positive integer that can | |
31 ## be accepted by @code{datestr}. | |
32 ## @seealso{datenum, datestr} | |
33 ## @end deftypefn | |
34 | |
35 function datetick (varargin) | |
36 | |
37 [h, varargin, nargin] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("datetick", varargin{:}); | |
38 | |
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39 oldh = gca (); |
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40 unwind_protect |
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41 axes (h); |
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42 __datetick__ (varargin{:}); |
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43 unwind_protect_cleanup |
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44 axes (oldh); |
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45 end_unwind_protect |
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46 |
8112 | 47 endfunction |
48 | |
49 %!demo | |
50 %! yr = 1900:10:2000; | |
51 %! pop = [76.094, 92.407, 106.461, 123.077 131.954, 151.868, 179.979, ... | |
52 %! 203.984, 227.225, 249.623, 282.224]; | |
53 %! plot (datenum (yr, 1, 1), pop); | |
54 %! title ("US population (millions)"); | |
55 %! xlabel ("Year"); | |
56 %! datetick ("x", "YYYY"); | |
57 | |
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58 %!demo |
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59 %! yr =1988:2:2002; |
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60 %! yr =datenum(yr,1,1); |
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61 %! pr = [12.1 13.3 12.6 13.1 13.3 14.1 14.4 15.2]; |
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62 %! plot(yr,pr); |
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63 %! xlabel('year') |
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64 %! ylabel('average price') |
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65 %! ax=gca; |
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66 %! set(ax,'xtick',datenum(1990:5:2005,1,1)) |
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67 %! datetick(2,'keepticks') |
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68 %! set(ax,'ytick',12:16) |
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70 ## Remove from test statistics. No real tests possible. |
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71 %!assert (1) |
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72 |
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74 | |
75 keeplimits = false; | |
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76 keepticks = false; |
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78 for i = 1 : nargin | |
79 arg = varargin {i}; | |
80 if (ischar (arg)) | |
81 if (strcmpi (arg, "keeplimits")) | |
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82 keeplimits = true; |
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83 idx = [idx, i]; |
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84 elseif (strcmpi (arg, "keepticks")) |
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85 keepticks = true; |
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86 idx = [idx, i]; |
8112 | 87 endif |
88 endif | |
89 endfor | |
90 | |
91 varargin(idx) = []; | |
92 nargin = length (varargin); | |
93 form = []; | |
94 ax = "x"; | |
95 | |
96 if (nargin != 0) | |
97 arg = varargin{1}; | |
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99 || strcmp (arg, "z"))) |
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101 if (nargin > 1) | |
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102 form = varargin{2}; |
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103 varargin(1:2) = []; |
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105 varargin(1) = []; |
8112 | 106 endif |
107 else | |
108 form = arg; | |
109 varargin(1) = []; | |
110 endif | |
111 endif | |
112 | |
113 ## Don't publish the existence of this variable for use with dateaxis | |
114 if (length (varargin) > 0) | |
115 startdate = varargin{1}; | |
116 else | |
117 startdate = []; | |
118 endif | |
119 | |
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123 error ("datetick: expecting FORM argument to be a positive integer"); |
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126 error ("datetick: expecting valid date format string"); |
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128 endif | |
129 | |
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131 ticks = get (gca (), strcat (ax, "tick")); |
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133 ## Need to do our own axis tick position calculation as | |
134 ## year, etc, don't fallback on nice datenum values. | |
135 objs = findall (gca()); | |
136 xmax = NaN; | |
137 xmin = NaN; | |
138 for i = 1 : length (objs) | |
139 fld = get (objs (i)); | |
140 if (isfield (fld, strcat (ax, "data"))) | |
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141 xdata = getfield (fld, strcat (ax, "data"))(:); |
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143 xmax = max (xmax, max (xdata)); |
8112 | 144 endif |
145 endfor | |
146 | |
147 if (isnan (xmin) || isnan (xmax)) | |
148 xmin = 0; | |
149 xmax = 1; | |
150 elseif (xmin == xmax) | |
151 xmax = xmin + 1; | |
152 endif | |
153 | |
154 N = 3; | |
155 if (xmax - xmin < N) | |
156 ## Day scale or less | |
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157 if (xmax - xmin < N / 24 / 60 / 60) |
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158 scl = 1 / 24 / 60 / 60; |
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160 scl = 1 / 24 / 60; |
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162 scl = 1 / 24; |
8112 | 163 endif |
164 sep = __calc_tick_sep__ (xmin / scl , xmax / scl); | |
165 xmin = sep * floor (xmin / scl / sep); | |
166 xmax = sep * ceil (xmax / scl / sep); | |
167 nticks = (xmax - xmin) / sep + 1; | |
168 xmin *= scl; | |
169 xmax *= scl; | |
170 else | |
171 [ymin, mmin, dmin] = datevec (xmin); | |
172 [ymax, mmax, dmax] = datevec (xmax); | |
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173 minyear = ymin + (mmin - 1) / 12 + (dmin - 1) / 12 / 30; |
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174 maxyear = ymax + (mmax - 1) / 12 + (dmax - 1) / 12 / 30; |
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175 minmonth = mmin + (dmin - 1) / 30; |
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176 maxmonth = (ymax - ymin) * 12 + mmax + (dmax - 1) / 30; |
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182 nticks = (xmax - xmin) / sep + 1; |
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185 xmin = datenum (ymin, sep * floor (minmonth / sep), 1); |
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187 nticks = ceil (maxmonth / sep) - floor (minmonth / sep) + 1; |
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192 nticks = ceil (maxyear / sep) - floor (minyear / sep) + 1; |
8112 | 193 endif |
194 endif | |
195 ticks = xmin + [0 : nticks - 1] / (nticks - 1) * (xmax - xmin); | |
196 endif | |
197 | |
198 if (isempty (form)) | |
199 r = max(ticks) - min(ticks); | |
200 if r < 10/60/24 | |
201 ## minutes and seconds | |
202 form = 13; | |
203 elseif r < 2 | |
204 ## hours | |
205 form = 15; | |
206 elseif r < 15 | |
207 ## days | |
208 form = 8; | |
209 elseif r < 365 | |
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211 ## instead of mm/dd. How can that be determined automatically? |
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213 form = 6; | |
214 elseif r < 90*12 | |
215 ## quarters | |
216 form = 27; | |
217 else | |
218 ## years | |
219 form = 10; | |
220 endif | |
221 endif | |
222 | |
223 if (length (ticks) == 6) | |
224 ## Careful that its not treated as a datevec | |
225 if (! isempty (startdate)) | |
226 sticks = strvcat (datestr (ticks(1:end-1) - ticks(1) + startdate, form), | |
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227 datestr (ticks(end) - ticks(1) + startdate, form)); |
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230 datestr (ticks(end), form)); |
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232 else | |
233 if (! isempty (startdate)) | |
234 sticks = datestr (ticks - ticks(1) + startdate, form); | |
235 else | |
236 sticks = datestr (ticks, form); | |
237 endif | |
238 endif | |
239 | |
240 sticks = mat2cell (sticks, ones (rows (sticks), 1), columns (sticks)); | |
241 | |
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244 set (gca(), strcat (ax, "ticklabel"), sticks); | |
245 else | |
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247 [min(ticks), max(ticks)]); |
8112 | 248 endif |
249 else | |
250 if (keeplimits) | |
251 set (gca(), strcat (ax, "tick"), ticks, strcat (ax, "ticklabel"), sticks); | |
252 else | |
253 set (gca(), strcat (ax, "tick"), ticks, strcat (ax, "ticklabel"), sticks, | |
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254 strcat (ax, "lim"), [min(ticks), max(ticks)]); |
8112 | 255 endif |
256 endif | |
257 endfunction | |
258 | |
259 function [a, b] = __magform__ (x) | |
260 if (x == 0) | |
261 a = 0; | |
262 b = 0; | |
263 else | |
264 l = log10 (abs (x)); | |
265 r = fmod (l, 1); | |
266 a = 10 .^ r; | |
267 b = fix (l - r); | |
268 if (a < 1) | |
269 a *= 10; | |
270 b -= 1; | |
271 endif | |
272 if (x < 0) | |
273 a = -a; | |
274 endif | |
275 endif | |
276 endfunction | |
277 | |
278 ## A translation from Tom Holoryd's python code at | |
279 ## http://kurage.nimh.nih.gov/tomh/tics.py | |
280 function sep = __calc_tick_sep__ (lo, hi) | |
281 persistent sqrt_2 = sqrt (2.0); | |
282 persistent sqrt_10 = sqrt (10.0); | |
283 persistent sqrt_50 = sqrt (50.0); | |
284 | |
285 ticint = 5; | |
286 | |
287 ## Reference: Lewart, C. R., "Algorithms SCALE1, SCALE2, and | |
288 ## SCALE3 for Determination of Scales on Computer Generated | |
289 ## Plots", Communications of the ACM, 10 (1973), 639-640. | |
290 ## Also cited as ACM Algorithm 463. | |
291 | |
292 [a, b] = __magform__ ((hi - lo) / ticint); | |
293 | |
294 if (a < sqrt_2) | |
295 x = 1; | |
296 elseif (a < sqrt_10) | |
297 x = 2; | |
298 elseif (a < sqrt_50) | |
299 x = 5; | |
300 else | |
301 x = 10; | |
302 endif | |
303 sep = x * 10 .^ b; | |
304 endfunction | |
305 |