set date range in ggplot

Question

my data frame is z:

library(ggplot2); library(scales)
z <-     structure(list(Month = structure(c(14975, 15095, 15156, 15187, 
15248), class = "Date&q         


        

Answer 1

It would be a courtesy to SO users to note that you have in addition to 'ggplot2' also loaded the scales package. There is an ggplot2::xlim function, so this works:

  ...... + xlim(as.Date(c('1/1/2011', '1/1/2013'), format="%d/%m/%Y") )

Update: Just got a downvote for an unexplained reason. The code in the original question no longer works, but if you replace the scale_x_date(.) call with just the xlim() call above there is no error.

ggplot(z, aes(Month, Value)) + 
     geom_bar(fill="orange",size=.3,  stat="identity", position="identity") +
     geom_smooth(data=z,aes(Month,Value,group=1), method="lm", size=2, color="navyblue") + 
     xlim(as.Date(c('1/1/2011', '1/1/2013'), format="%d/%m/%Y") )