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ggplot2 adding vertical line at a certain date

2 messages · stephen sefick, Ivan Alves

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library(ggplot2)

melt.updn <- (structure(list(date = structure(c(11808, 11869, 11961, 11992,
12084, 12173, 12265, 12418, 12600, 12631, 12753, 12996, 13057,
13149, 11808, 11869, 11961, 11992, 12084, 12173, 12265, 12418,
12600, 12631, 12753, 12996, 13057, 13149), class = "Date"), variable =
structure(c(1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("unrestored",
"restored"), class = "factor"), value = c(1.1080259671261, 0.732188576856918,
0.410334408061265, 0.458980396410056, 0.429867902470711, 0.83126337241925,
0.602008712602784, 0.818751283264408, 1.12606382402475, 0.246174719479079,
0.941043753226865, 0.986511619794787, 0.291074883642735, 0.346361775752625,
1.36209038621623, 0.878561166753624, 0.525156715576168, 0.80305564765846,
1.08084449441812, 1.24906568558731, 0.970954515841768, 0.936838439269239,
1.26970090246036, 0.337831520417547, 0.909204325710795, 0.951009811036613,
0.290735620653709, 0.426683515714219)), .Names = c("date", "variable",
"value"), row.names = c(NA, -28L), class = "data.frame"))

qplot(date, value, data=melt.updn, shape=variable)+geom_smooth()

#I would like to add a line at November 1, 2002
#thanks for the help
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check out geom_vline

  + geom_vline(xintercept=as.numeric(as.Date("2002-11-01")))

[you may not need to convert the date to numeric in the most recent  
ggplot2 version]
On 27 May 2009, at 20:31, stephen sefick wrote: