I have a similar question, I receive payments, but not every day (or even every week), and I would like see how much I receive per week and/or per month. I also need to compare different years. I also would like to see what the (accumulated) sum of the payments is at the end of a given week, month. And then of course I would like to show this to someone, ie make a graph. X-Axis 12 months (or 52 weeks). Left X-Axis the amounts for the bars which should be in different colors (per month/bar), right Y-Axis the amounts for the totals as a line (so that the bars don't become too flat). If such a combined graph is not possible/feasible, I could live with one plot each per year. I got the usual tools on the Mac, including R, gnuplot and fink. any help would be appreciated. el on 9/30/06 8:34 PM Jan Danielsson said the following: > I'm going to assume that this question has been asked a gazillion > times, and is in every SQL book known to man and aliens. And I also > assume it is in the FAQ. But I'm going to ask anyway. > > I have a database in which I store my purchases -- mainly for > entertainment (you have no idea how dull my life is). > > In an effort to get some variation in my life, I thought I'd find > out how much of my valuable money I waste each day - on average. -- If you want to email me, replace nospam with el