ggplot problem; code is plotting lines as some very strange bars. Why is this?-CodePudding

I'm having a bit of a problem when it comes to plotting some data from a dataframe. It seems to treat multiple series as being the same line. Does anyone know why this is?

Dataframe code to create df:

df <- read.table(text="Date     Item            Purchased
01/01/08 Fruit              48
01/01/08 Confectionary      42
01/01/08 Appliance          11
01/06/08 Confectionary      16
01/06/08 Fruit              19
01/06/08 Appliance          50", header=TRUE)

My code to plot data:

test_df <- ggplot(df) geom_line(aes(x=Date, y=Purchased, color=Item, group = 1),size=8) 
  theme(title=element_text(size=10),panel.background = element_rect(fill='white'),legend.position='top') geom_hline(yintercept = 0,color="white")

test_df

This result of my plot:

I'd like to plot some time series of this data; one line for 'Fruit', one for 'Confectionary' and one for 'Appliance'. Does anyone know why it's doing this?

*EDIT: Adding x=lubridate::mdy(Date) produces thee following result:

CodePudding user response：

With thanks to MrFlick, the issue was including the group=1