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date_breaks_n: Create evenly spaced breaks

Description

Generate a sequence of date breaks for ggplot scales, taking every nth unique date.

Usage

date_breaks_n(dates, n = 6, decreasing = TRUE)

Value

A vector of dates suitable for use as ggplot2 axis breaks.

Arguments

dates

A vector of dates.

n

Integer, keep every n-th date (default = 6).

decreasing

Logical, if TRUE (default) sorts dates in descending order.

Examples

Run this code
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

df <- tibble(
  date = seq.Date(as.Date("2020-01-01"), as.Date("2025-01-01"), by = "month"),
  value = rnorm(61)
)

ggplot(df, aes(date, value)) +
  geom_line() +
  scale_x_date(breaks = date_breaks_n(df$date, 6))

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