Good day,
I am a new user and am trying to plot some data and the dates all run together on the x-axis. My data is in a table format.
I am using the following code
ggplot(dmr,aes(x = date, y = bod)) +
geom_point() +
labs(x = "Date",y = "BOD(mg/L)",
theme(axis.text.x=element_text(angle=45,hjust=1)),
title = "City of XXXX")
I can't seem to figure out why the dates won't display at the 45 degree angle?
Many thanks!!
Marty
The theme function should not be inside of the labs() function. At least, I have never seen that and I would expect it to throw an error. I may just be unaware of that method, but try putting theme() after the labs(), connecting them with a + sign.
Also, it looks like your dates are being read as characters, not as numeric dates. There are convenient functions in the lubridate package. If your dates have the format m-d-y, use the mdy() function.
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