R Highcharter: On x-axis, Date is not showing correctly when dataframe has only one result

Question

I'm building a shiny app that displays actual vs planned expenditure on a monthly basis. I've created controls that allow the user to select a specific project. But in some projects, there are only planned expenditure for a single month is there. For those projects, the Date is not coming properly on the X-Axis.

He is the code that I've written:

renderHighchart({
  highchart() %>%
  hc_chart(type = "column") %>%
  hc_xAxis(categories = planned_vs_actual()$documentDate, title = list(text = "<b>Date</b>"), type = "datetime") %>%
  hc_add_series(name="Planned Expenditure",
                data = planned_vs_actual()$PlannedExpenditure) %>%
  hc_add_series(name="Actual Expenditure",
                data = planned_vs_actual()$ActualExpenditure) %>%
  hc_tooltip(borderWidth = 1.5,
             pointFormat = paste('<span style="color:{series.color}">{series.name}</span>: <b>{point.y}</b><br/>')) %>%
    hc_legend(enabled = TRUE) %>%
  hc_title(text = "Planned vs Actual Expenditure (In Crores)") %>%
  hc_subtitle(text = dataPeriod) %>%
  hc_yAxis(title = list(text = "<b>Amount <br>(In Crores)</br></b>"))%>%
    hc_add_theme(custom_theme)
})

Answer 1

Finally found the solution on this link: https://github.com/jbkunst/highcharter/issues/395

Just need to make this change:

hc_xAxis(categories = as.list(planned_vs_actual()$documentDate), title = list(text = "<b>Date</b>"), type = "datetime")

Put the date in as.list() function to show it properly on x-axis.