Re: Octave plot on time/date x-axis

[djacobson]

I think Octave no longer allows to directly access gnuplot, so these
commands won't work. I don't know if there is some simple way to have
dates as tick labels, but you can always set tick labels manually,
like this:

data = [2 3 5 3.5 6];
datalabels = {'10/3/2008','10/4/2008','10/5/2008','10/6/2008','10/7/2008'};
% cell array
plot(data)
set(gca(),'xticklabels',datalabels)

Depending on your data, you could probably use something like
datestr() to fill cell array with respective dates as strings. Setting
graphic properties with get() and set() functions is documented in
Octave manual (section about advanced plotting), and since Octave
developers try to keep things compatible with MATLAB, I've found
reference on Mathworks site also useful.

Hope this helped
Ivan Sutoris
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Ivan, 
I tried your example and i have looked at the gca/set documentation. When i
run your code (using 'xticklabel' instead of 'xticklabels' i still only get
the plot with the indicies 1,2,3,4,5 along the x-axis. Could there be
something missing from my installation or is there a package i need to load?
thanks, dan.
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