Creating month-sized bins with ggplot2 in r

Question

I have a set of data that I need to plot in ggplot2. It is time ordered. This is the data set:

testset <- data.table(Date=as.Date(c(\"2013-07-02\",\"2013-         


        

Answer 1

You can use the yearmon class from the zoo package. There is a scale_..._yearmon function in the zoo package that works similarly to the scale_x_date function in the scales package

library(zoo)
ggplot(testset, aes(as.yearmon(Date), fill=Action)) + 
  geom_bar(position = position_dodge(width  = 1/12), 
           binwidth=1/12, colour='black') + 
  scale_x_yearmon()