Re: [R] formatting dates in axis labels (ggplot2)

2009-11-20 Thread hadley wickham
Hi Michael, I'm having trouble figuring out how to format Date variables when used as axis labels in graphs. The particular case here is an attempt to re-create Nightingale's coxcomb graph with ggplot2, where I'd like the months to be labeled as Mar 1885, Apr 1885, using a date format of

[R] formatting dates in axis labels (ggplot2)

2009-11-14 Thread Michael Friendly
I'm having trouble figuring out how to format Date variables when used as axis labels in graphs. The particular case here is an attempt to re-create Nightingale's coxcomb graph with ggplot2, where I'd like the months to be labeled as Mar 1885, Apr 1885, using a date format of %b %Y applied to