Format a nice time units for labels in graphs

This is an internal function called by some plot() methods. Considering the time series 'units' attribute and the frequency of the observations in the series, the function returns a string with a pertinent time unit. For instance, if the unit is 'years' and the frequency is 12, then data are monthly sampled and GetUnitText() returns the string "months"

GetUnitText(series)

Arguments

series

a regular time series (a 'rts' object in Splus, or a 'ts' object in R)

Value

a string with the best time unit for graphs

Author

Philippe Grosjean (phgrosjean@sciviews.org), Frédéric Ibanez (ibanez@obs-vlfr.fr)

See also

daystoyears, yearstodays

Examples

timeser <- ts(1:24, frequency=12)           # 12 observations per year
attr(timeser, "units") <- "years"           # time in years for 'ts' object
GetUnitText(timeser)                        # formats unit (1/12 year=months)
#> [1] "months"