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Plot a temporal profile

entropia_plot_temporal.Rd

Plots the output of entropia_temporal_profile() – counts per time bucket – as a line chart. The date column is auto-detected when x carries exactly one POSIXct/Date column (the bucket); pass date_var when the profile carries several date-like columns (e.g. grouping columns that are themselves dates).

Usage

entropia_plot_temporal(x, date_var = NULL)

Arguments

x

A data frame or tibble with a n count column and a date column, e.g. the output of entropia_temporal_profile().

date_var

Optional date column to plot on the x axis, selected by name or bare (tidyselect). NULL (default) auto-detects the single date column of x.

Value

A ggplot object.

Details

The returned ggplot is deliberately bare: add labels, a title, a theme or facets with +. A profile built with a by grouping draws one line across all groups; add aes(colour = <group>) yourself to distinguish them.

Examples

prof <- data.frame(
  created_at = as.POSIXct(c("2026-01-01", "2026-02-01"), tz = "UTC"),
  n = c(3L, 5L)
)
p <- entropia_plot_temporal(prof)
if (requireNamespace("ggplot2", quietly = TRUE)) {
  p + ggplot2::labs(title = "Items over time")
}