Skipping X Axis Labels GGPLOT

[andleon]

Hi. I am having trouble getting my x axis worked out on this graph. It is a nine day period with 24 hours in each, split in to half hour ticks. I was hoping to just have every two hours marked off on the x axis to clear space and make it possible to read. I have tried a few different options (pretty:breaks and scale_x_continous) to get it worked out, but I keep getting errors. Would appreciate any suggestions.

DATA:

data.frame(
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
           DAY_NUM = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2),
                         TIME = c("22:00",
                                  "22:30","23:00","23:30","23:30","0:00",
                                  "0:00","0:30","0:30","1:00"),
                    Treatment = c("FOUR",
                                  "FOUR","FOUR","FOUR","ONE","FOUR","ONE",
                                  "FOUR","ONE","FOUR"),
                         Mean = c(0,0,0,
                                  4.09090909090909,2.45454545454545,0,2,0,
                                  0.272727272727273,0)

PLOT CODE:

circa_plot <- ggplot(ALL_DATA, aes(x = TIME, y = Mean, col = Treatment, group = Treatment))+ 
  geom_line(show.legend = FALSE) +
  facet_grid(Treatment~DAY_NUM, scales = "free_y") + 
  labs(x = "Time", y = "Mean Number of Hops") +
  theme_minimal() 

circa_plot

PLOT.pdf (25.1 KB)

[andresrcs]

Turn your difftime variable into a POSIXct variable

library(tidyverse)

ALL_DATA <- data.frame(
    stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
    DAY_NUM = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2),
    TIME = c("22:00",
             "22:30","23:00","23:30","23:30","0:00",
             "0:00","0:30","0:30","1:00"),
    Treatment = c("FOUR",
                  "FOUR","FOUR","FOUR","ONE","FOUR","ONE",
                  "FOUR","ONE","FOUR"),
    Mean = c(0,0,0,
             4.09090909090909,2.45454545454545,0,2,0,
             0.272727272727273,0))
ALL_DATA %>% 
    mutate(TIME = as.POSIXct(paste0("1980-01-01 ", TIME, ":00"))) %>% 
    ggplot(aes(x = TIME, y = Mean, col = Treatment, group = Treatment))+ 
    geom_line(show.legend = FALSE) +
    facet_grid(Treatment ~ DAY_NUM, scales = "free_y") + 
    scale_x_datetime(date_breaks = "2 hour", date_labels = "%H:%M") +
    labs(x = "Time", y = "Mean Number of Hops") +
    theme_minimal() +
    theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1, vjust = 1))
#> geom_path: Each group consists of only one observation. Do you need to adjust
#> the group aesthetic?

^{Created on 2021-05-01 by the reprex package (v2.0.0)}

It is possible to use a difftime variable but getting fine control over the axis breaks is tricky.