Scatter plot with dates in R

Question

Could you help me make a scatter plot of the df database?. The x axis would be the dates and the y axis would be the values corresponding to d1 and d2. Also, I would like to put as x-axis caption "date" and y-axis caption "d".

  df <- structure(
      list(date = c("2021-01-01","2021-01-02","2021-01-03","2021-01-04","2021-01-05"),
           d1 = c(0,1,4,5,6), d2 = c(2,4,5,6,7)),class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -5L))

Answer 1

Get the data in long format for the d1 and d2 variables.

Using ggplot2 here is one way to plot this data -

library(tidyverse)

df %>%
  pivot_longer(cols = -date) %>%
  mutate(date = as.Date(date)) %>%
  ggplot() + aes(date, value, color = name) + 
  geom_point(size = 2) + 
  labs(x = 'date', y = 'd') + 
  theme_classic()