Formating Dates with Lubridate

Changing Date formats with Lubridate

For every data visualization project that involves using dates on one of the axes, I always find myself having to re-format the date so that visualization “works”.

Here’s a workflow that is recommended at the start of any data visualization project.

library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate) # handling dates

df %>%
    # handling date first
    mutate(
        date = original_date_variable %>% ymd(),
        year = date %>% year(),
        month = date %>% month(),
        day = date %>% day(),
        year_month = make_datetime(year, month) # combine year & month
    )