Creating a break (//) in my x-axis (date)

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Staying with continuous data, you can get the breaks at the correct location if they're in the right unit:

p1 +
  scale_x_break(as.Date(c("2025-04-01", "2025-05-01")))

Unfortunately, this converts the labels to numeric. But, scales_x_break() can be combined with other scales! So we can add a scale_x_continuous() on top of it to force relabelling:

p1 +
  scale_x_break(as.Date(c("2025-04-01", "2025-05-01"))) +
  scale_x_continuous()

This is not enough: it just adds a second numeric scale in a weird way I can't explain. But, if we specify the breaks ourselves:

p1 +
  scale_x_break(as.Date(c("2025-04-01", "2025-05-01"))) +
  scale_x_continuous( breaks = scales::breaks_pretty(n = 10)(df$date) )

There is still a double scale on top, no idea why, but at least they all display correct dates.

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