Struggling to create a bar chart with the variable date

[s1518672]

Hi there, I am struggling to create a bar graph with my date variable which doesn't appear under variables when I click on bar chart. It is written as 2019-09-07 (for example). Do the dashes need to go?

Thanks!

[andresrcs]

Hi!

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[phiggins]

Hi s1518672!
Does this code block give you a starting place?

This is a reprex.

If you can produce one with your own data, other users will be able to help you with your specific problem.

library(tidyverse)
# toy data
df <- data.frame(
  date = as.Date(c('2017-09-17', '2017-09-21','2017-09-17', '2017-09-21', '2017-09-17', '2017-09-21')),
  rooms = c(3, 7, 4, 17, 5, 21)
)

head(df)
#>         date rooms
#> 1 2017-09-17     3
#> 2 2017-09-21     7
#> 3 2017-09-17     4
#> 4 2017-09-21    17
#> 5 2017-09-17     5
#> 6 2017-09-21    21

df %>% 
  group_by(date) %>% 
  summarize(rooms_total = sum(rooms)) %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = as.factor(date),
         y = rooms_total)) +
  geom_bar(stat = 'identity') +
  labs(x = "Date", y = "Total Rooms Rented")

^{Created on 2019-10-17 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}