nanotime and ggplot2?

[randomgambit]

Hi @eddelbuettel, thanks for this amazing package!

Nanotime support is clearly what we need at the moment. I am wondering if your package is compatible with ggplot2.

Can I create charts that have an x-axis with timestamps up to nanoseconds? Are there any particular issues?

Thanks!

[eddelbuettel]

Sure. You will need to write a custom format routine to do that. For POSIXct we get this for free because R natively supports, for extensions we have to do it by hand (and eventually integrate it). This is no different for nanotime than it is for other time package such as chron which are not using POSIXct. Or for packages extending POSIXct such as xts -- you could start by looking at plot.xts.

[randomgambit]

thanks, so you are saying that if my timestamps look like
2014-01-01 20:05:05.12345678 I should be able to nanotime() them and then use in ggplot directly?

[eddelbuettel]

No, that was not what I said.

[randomgambit]

ha! sorry then, coming from Python I am not 100% familiar with all the terminology. I dont understand when you say For POSIXct we get this for free because R natively supports, for extensions we have to do it by hand (and eventually integrate it)