Create a calendar

This post is to create a calendar.

Intro

This post is to create a calendar to check when some events were more likely to occur.

Packages

library(tidyverse)

Data

Create a data frame with a sequence of days

firstday<- as.Date("2020-05-01")
lastday <- as.Date("2020-08-31")
days_seq <- seq(firstday, lastday, by = "day")
days_df<-as.data.frame(days_seq)

Separate months and days

days_df$month<-substr(days_df$days, start = 6, stop = 7)
days_df$day<-substr(days_df$days, start = 9, stop = 10)

Add values

my_values<-sample(1:7, 123, replace=TRUE)
days_df$events<-as.factor(my_values[1:123])

Separate months

may<-days_df %>%
  filter(month=='05')

Create x and y axis

calen_xs<-rep(c(1:7), times = 5)
calen_ys<-rep(c(5:1), each = 7)

may$calen_xs<-calen_xs[1:31]
may$calen_ys<-calen_ys[1:31]

Select color palette

my_palette <- c("1" = '#577590', 
                "2" = '#43aa8b', 
                "3" = '#90be6d', 
                "4" = "#f9c74f", 
                "5" = "#f8961e", 
                "6" = "#f3722c", 
                "7" = "#f94144") 

Plot

ggplot(may,aes(x=calen_xs,y=calen_ys,color=events))+
  geom_point(size=25,shape=15)+

  scale_x_continuous(limits=c(0.5,7.5))+
  scale_y_continuous(limits=c(0.5,5.5))+
  
  # remove background colors
  theme_void()+
  
  # adds texts
  geom_text(aes(label=day),color='white') +
  
  # sets the legend below
  theme(legend.position = 'top')+
   
  # lines the legend
  guides(colour = guide_legend(override.aes = list(size=6),nrow = 1))+
  
  # uses palette
  scale_color_manual(name = "May no. events",values = my_palette)

I used this to see which dates there were more surveys occurring, hope it helps!