stephen sefick
2009-May-29 21:06 UTC
[R] ggplot2 date help (minor gridlines months and major grid lines years in a readable format)
library(ggplot2) melt.updn <- (structure(list(date = structure(c(11808, 11869, 11961, 11992, 12084, 12173, 12265, 12418, 12600, 12631, 12753, 12996, 13057, 13149, 11808, 11869, 11961, 11992, 12084, 12173, 12265, 12418, 12600, 12631, 12753, 12996, 13057, 13149), class = "Date"), variable structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("unrestored", "restored"), class = "factor"), value = c(1.1080259671261, 0.732188576856918, 0.410334408061265, 0.458980396410056, 0.429867902470711, 0.83126337241925, 0.602008712602784, 0.818751283264408, 1.12606382402475, 0.246174719479079, 0.941043753226865, 0.986511619794787, 0.291074883642735, 0.346361775752625, 1.36209038621623, 0.878561166753624, 0.525156715576168, 0.80305564765846, 1.08084449441812, 1.24906568558731, 0.970954515841768, 0.936838439269239, 1.26970090246036, 0.337831520417547, 0.909204325710795, 0.951009811036613, 0.290735620653709, 0.426683515714219)), .Names = c("date", "variable", "value"), row.names = c(NA, -28L), class = "data.frame")) qplot(date, value, data=melt.updn, shape=variable, ylab="Distance" ,main="Euclidean Distances Time Series")+geom_line()+theme_bw()+geom_vline(x=as.numeric(as.Date("2002-11-01"))) # I would like to add minor grid lines so that months of the year can be distinguished. # even tick marks would be acceptable. I have tried to wade through the book on Hadley's site and I can not figure this one out thanks for the help, -- Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis