I'm a graphic designer who is trying to use R to create graphs that are too complicated for Excel. I'm specifically trying to create an irregular time series step chart. I've had no problems creating a regular time series chart, but for some reason, the irregular dates are throwing everything off.
I'm starting with a basic text file with two columns of data:
01-04-1940 4
05-29-1963 35
12-02-2002 24
I've loaded the data using
d <- read.delim("file.txt", header = TRUE)
and I've converted the first column in Unix time using
d$date <- as.Date(d$date, format = "%m-%d-%Y")
But at this point, I can't find any more information anywhere on how to proceed. I've seen the R package "ITS," But I cannot find any documentation on it beyond technical descriptions of the classes involved.
I'd much appreciate it if someone with some experience in R could point out the few lines of code I need to create this graph. Thanks!