How to create a plot in base R with dates sequence on X-axis?

If we have a vector that contains dates as sequence that needs to be plotted on the X-axis and another vector for the response then the plot can be simply created by using the plot function. In the plot function, we would need to pass the dates as the first argument and the response vector as the second argument. Check ou the examples below to understand how it works.

Example

 Live Demo

x<-rpois(10,5)
x

Output

[1] 4 7 4 4 6 4 3 4 9 5

Example

dates<-seq(as.Date("25/11/2020",format="%d/%m/%Y"),by="days",length=length(x))
dates

Output

[1] "2020-11-25" "2020-11-26" "2020-11-27" "2020-11-28" "2020-11-29"
[6] "2020-11-30" "2020-12-01" "2020-12-02" "2020-12-03" "2020-12-04"

Example

plot(dates,x)

Output

Example

y<-sample(0:9,10,replace=TRUE)
dates<-seq(as.Date("01/01/2020",format="%d/%m/%Y"),by="days",length=length(x))
plot(dates,y)

Output

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Published on 08-Dec-2020 07:04:50

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