How can I format my Dates using as.Date() in R?

Question

I have a dataset that looks like this:

Date        AE      AA      AEF     Percent
1/1/2012    1211    1000    3556    0.03
1/2/2012    100     2000    3221    0         


        

Answer 1

ggplot does not necessarily interpret dates well. Have you tried transforming the data into a timeseries

Something like:

# Make data a time series, starting Jan 2009
data.ts<-ts(data, start=c(2009,1),frequency=52)

Then plot it using ggplot.