R

Position scale, date

calsalmon August 14, 2015

Usage

scale_x_date(..., expand = waiver(), breaks = pretty_breaks(), minor_breaks = waiver())

scale_y_date(..., expand = waiver(), breaks = pretty_breaks(), minor_breaks = waiver())

Arguments

breaks
A vector of breaks, a function that given the scale limits returns a vector of breaks, or a character vector, specifying the width between breaks. For more information about the first two, see continuous_scale, for more information about the last, seedate_breaks`.
minor_breaks
Either NULL for no minor breaks, waiver() for the default breaks (one minor break between each major break), a numeric vector of positions, or a function that given the limits returns a vector of minor breaks.
…
common continuous scale parameters: name, breaks, labels, na.value, limits and trans. See continuous_scale for more details
expand
a numeric vector of length two giving multiplicative and additive expansion constants. These constants ensure that the data is placed some distance away from the axes.

Description

Position scale, date

Examples

# We’ll start by creating some nonsense data with dates df <- data.frame( date = seq(Sys.Date(), len=100, by=”1 day”)[sample(100, 50)], price = runif(50) ) df <- df[order(df$date), ] dt <- qplot(date, price, data=df, geom=”line”) + theme(aspect.ratio = 1/4) # We can control the format of the labels, and the frequency of # the major and minor tickmarks. See ?format.Date and ?seq.Date # for more details. library(scales) # to access breaks/formatting functions dt + scale_x_date()

dt + scale_x_date(labels = date_format(“%m/%d”))

dt + scale_x_date(labels = date_format(“%W”))

dt + scale_x_date(labels = date_format(“%W”), breaks = date_breaks(“week”))

dt + scale_x_date(breaks = date_breaks(“months”), labels = date_format(“%b”))

dt + scale_x_date(breaks = date_breaks(“4 weeks”), labels = date_format(“%d-%b”))

# We can use character string for breaks. # See \code{\link{by}} argument in \code{\link{seq.Date}}. dt + scale_x_date(breaks = “2 weeks”)

dt + scale_x_date(breaks = “1 month”, minor_breaks = “1 week”)

# The date scale will attempt to pick sensible defaults for # major and minor tick marks qplot(date, price, data=df[1:10,], geom=”line”)

qplot(date, price, data=df[1:4,], geom=”line”)

df <- data.frame( date = seq(Sys.Date(), len=1000, by=”1 day”), price = runif(500) ) qplot(date, price, data=df, geom=”line”)

# A real example using economic time series data qplot(date, psavert, data=economics)

qplot(date, psavert, data=economics, geom=”path”)

end <- max(economics$date) last_plot() + scale_x_date(limits = c(as.Date(“2000-1-1”), end))

last_plot() + scale_x_date(limits = c(as.Date(“2005-1-1”), end))
Scale for 'x' is already present. Adding another scale for 'x', which will replace the existing scale.

last_plot() + scale_x_date(limits = c(as.Date(“2006-1-1”), end))
Scale for 'x' is already present. Adding another scale for 'x', which will replace the existing scale.

# If we want to display multiple series, one for each variable # it’s easiest to first change the data from a “wide” to a “long” # format: library(reshape2) # for melt em <- melt(economics, id = “date”) # Then we can group and facet by the new “variable” variable qplot(date, value, data = em, geom = “line”, group = variable)

qplot(date, value, data = em, geom = “line”, group = variable) + facet_grid(variable ~ ., scale = “free_y”)