Plotly Time series forecasting-modify default x axis and y axis range

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Hi Expert,

I have a query on Time series forecasting with plotly. I have built a forecasting chart however few things needs to be changed but its not working for me. Please find the attachment for details and kindly let me know the correction or suggestion for R code.

Query:

  1. currently X Axis is showing 2,016.5, 2017 , 2017.5 , etc however I want it to show yearmonth like 2016.04,2014,05,etc.
    Please be informed yearmonth is a field in data, please refer attached data

  2. currently Y Axis is showing lables with the difference of 50 K , however I want it to show as 5 K, 10K,15K, etc.

Below is R code used :

library(forecast)
library(plotly)
ord <- order(ds$`Calendar Year-DISPLAY_KEY`,ds$`Calendar Month-DISPLAY_KEY`)
sds <- ds[ord,]
firstRec <- sds[1,]
mn <- as.numeric(firstRec$'Calendar Month-DISPLAY_KEY')    
yr <- as.numeric(as.character(firstRec$'Calendar Year-DISPLAY_KEY'))
tm <- ts(data = sds$Calc_Best_DSO , start= c(yr,mn) ,frequency = 12)
plot(tm)
tm[is.na(tm)] <-0

fit <- ets(tm)
fore <- forecast(fit, h = 3, level = c(80, 95))

plot_ly() %>%
  add_lines(x = time(tm), y = tm,hoverinfo = "text",
            color = I("black"), name = "observed",text= paste("Month: ",sds$`Calendar Month-DISPLAY_KEY`,
                    "<br>","Year: ",sds$`Calendar Year-DISPLAY_KEY`,
                   "<br>","DSO: ",sds$Calc_Best_DSO)) %>%
  add_ribbons(x = time(fore$mean), ymin = fore$lower[, 2], ymax = fore$upper[, 2],
              color = I("gray95"), name = "95% confidence") %>%
  add_ribbons(x = time(fore$mean), ymin = fore$lower[, 1], ymax = fore$upper[, 1],
              color = I("gray80"), name = "80% confidence") %>%
  add_lines(x = time(fore$mean), y = fore$mean, color = I("blue"), name = "prediction")

Below is sample data:

Month,Year,YearMonth,Population
1,2017,201701,100
1,2018,201801,300
2,2018,201802,310
3,2018,201803,320
4,2018,201804,330
2,2017,201702,200
3,2017,201703,300
4,2017,201704,400
5,2017,201705,500
6,2017,201706,600
7,2017,201707,700
8,2017,201708,800
9,2017,201709,900
10,2017,201710,1000
11,2017,201711,1100
12,2017,201712,1200

PlotlyData

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Any response would be appreciated !!

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Hi @Sudhir_R

Perhaps it would be easier if you could make a smaller reproducible example. That said, it sounds like you are looking for ticktext, tickvals, tickformat, etc. https://plot.ly/r/reference/#layout-yaxis

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Hi @bcd,

Thanks for your response !!

When I use below code , my first member of x axis starts from 1970 however, my data which is attached starts from 2017-01. And my data is YearMonth not DD-MM-YYYY

layout(xaxis =list(type="date",
                   tickformat='%d/%m/%Y',
                   showticklabels='True',
                    tick0= "2016-12-31",
                    dtick= "M12"))

I need XAxis to be 2017.01,2017.02,…
Please see the previous attachment.

Thanks,
Sudhir