9.8 Changing Tick Positions for a Date Axis

This section describes how to modify the placement of ticks on a graph that displays a date variable.

Although Figure 9.21 adequately displays the data and the loess fit of the data, the tick marks for the horizontal axis are less than satisfactory. It is difficult to discern the location of Christmas day and of the summer months—dates that are important for the analysis of the data. This section describes how you can modify the placement of tick marks on an axis by using the SetAxisTicks method.