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The Glamour of Graphics
Annotations
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Yuri Zharikov
February 20, 2023
In this and previous examples, when x-axis is a timeline with months and years, years are labeled only once (when they change). How is this achieved? Thank you, Yuri
David Keyes
February 21, 2023
I don't know exactly how Will did for the excess death charts (it may have been outside of R in Figma or something similar), but I have done this in R by manually creating a vector with the values. I calculate the labels by saying: "if the month is January, show {month}\n{year}" but if it is any other month just show {month}." Does that make sense?