R ggplot facet_wrap output illegible

Question

I am having some trouble getting facet_wrap to output my charts in a legible fashion. I am not quite sure if there is a way to set each chart to fit the data so to speak. My data frame is a set of weights taken at various times throughout the day, but each date might have a few results, or many.

head(df) results:

  Date Time   SKU Weight
1 1/6/2016 9:37 10142  28.70
2 1/6/2016 9:38 10142  27.45
3 1/6/2016 9:38 10142  30.60
4 1/6/2016 9:39 10142  30.60
5 1/6/2016 9:39 10142  35.30
6 1/6/2016 9:40 10142  28.25

The data continues for 6 months, I would like to represent each date in one line chart. My approach has been ggplot and facet_wrap. Perhaps this is not the approach I should take, so I am open to suggestions.

     p10142 <- ggplot(wtData10142, aes(x = Time, y = Weight))
     (p10142 + geom_line() + facet_wrap(~ Date, ncol = 10))

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

try this

    library(reshape2)
    t <- read.csv(file = "book1.csv", header = T, sep = ",")
    te <- melt(t)
    ggplot(t, aes(x = Time, y = Weight, color = Date)) + geom_line()

Answer 2

What about something like this where you set scales = "free_y" :

 p10142 <- ggplot(wtData10142, aes(x = Time, y = Weight)) +
   geom_line() + facet_wrap(~ Date, ncol = 10, scales = "free_y"))

This will allow your y axis to fuctuate independently in each of your facets. Perhaps your could also set some type of limits with scale_x_continuous() . Would help to have the full data set your used for plotting...