cumulative plot using ggplot2

cumulative-sum, ggplot2, r

Solution

Try this:

ggplot(df, aes(x=1:5, y=cumsum(val))) + geom_line() + geom_point()

Just remove `geom_point()` if you don't want it.

Edit: Since you require to plot the data as such with x labels are dates, you can plot with `x=1:5` and use `scale_x_discrete` to set `labels` a new `data.frame`. Taking `df`:

ggplot(data = df, aes(x = 1:5, y = cumsum(val))) + geom_line() + 
        geom_point() + theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle=90, hjust = 1)) + 
        scale_x_discrete(labels = df$date) + xlab("Date")

Since you say you'll have more than 1 `val` for "date", you can aggregate them first using `plyr`, for example.

require(plyr)
dd <- ddply(df, .(date), summarise, val = sum(val))

Then you can proceed with the same command by replacing `x = 1:5` with `x = seq_len(nrow(dd))`.

Problem

I'm learning to use `ggplot2` and am looking for the smallest `ggplot2` code that reproduces the `base::plot` result below. I've tried a few things and they all ended up being horrendously long, so I'm looking for the smallest expression and ideally would like to have the dates on the x-axis (which are not there in the `plot` below). ``` df = data.frame(date = c(20121201, 20121220, 20130101, 20130115, 20130201), val = c(10, 5, 8, 20, 4)) plot(cumsum(rowsum(df$val, df$date)), type = "l") ```

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