Building a textbox to highlight the difference between two points

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When the x axis is showing dates… turns out it wasn’t too bad!
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Cara Thompson

Building Stories with Data

Published

June 17, 2022

Working on a project for a client who wants a textbox specifying the difference between two points on a plot.

Turns out, that’s not a problem! We can get the x-coordinate for the box like this!

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Code snippet: mean(c(lubridate::as_date('2022-06-20'), lubridate::as_date('2022-06-24')))

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Thompson, Cara. 2022. “Building a Textbox to Highlight the Difference Between Two Points.” June 17, 2022. https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2022-06-17-working-on-a-project-for/.