[R] How to specify year-month-day for a plot

[Jeff Newmiller]

By converting the character date data into a time-like type... e.g. ?as.Date and plotting y-vs-x.

On December 12, 2020 11:18:46 AM PST, Gregory Coats via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>Starting with year-month-day, for the variable gallons, I can easily
>plot the variable gallons, while disregarding the date. 
>gallons <- c (15.973, 18.832, 17.392, 14.774, 19.248, 14.913, 15.226,
>14.338, 18.777, 19.652)
>plot (gallons, type="l", xlab="X label", ylab="Y label", col="blue”)
>
>How do I direct R to plot the variable gallons, at the appropriate,
>irregularly-spaced places on the X axis, while paying attention to the
>year-month-day?
>
>format = "%Y-%m-%d”
>2020-01-05 15.973
>2020-02-15 18.832
>2020-03-10 17.392
>2020-05-04 14.774
>2020-06-21 19.248
>2020-08-01 14.913
>2020-08-27 15.226
>2020-09-28 14.338
>2020-11-09 18.777
>2020-12-11 19.652
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