Calendar plot in R using ggplot2

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Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo

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August 2, 2025

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Excerpt from site: The calendR package allows creating fully customizable ggplot2 calendar plots with a single function. In addition, the package provides arguments to create heatmap calendars. In this tutorial you will learn how to create ready to print yearly and monthly calendar plots in R.

  1. Link to blog here: https://r-coder.com/calendar-plot-r/
  2. Link to package here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/calendR/

A calendar for May 2020. The month starts on a Friday and ends on a Sunday. Most days are shaded in varying shades of blue, except May 16 and 26, which are left blank, possibly indicating missing or excluded data.

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