How to plot layers of tupples on same plot in R? - r

Question

I am trying to plot the time and NDVI for each region on the same plot. I think to do this I have to convert the date column from characters to time and then plot each layer. However I cannot figure out how to do this. Any thoughts?
list(structure(list(observation = 1L, HRpcode = NA_character_,
timeseries = NA_character_), row.names = c(NA, -1L), class = c("tbl_df",
"tbl", "data.frame")), structure(list(observation = 1:6, time = c("2014-01-01",
"2014-02-01", "2014-03-01", "2014-04-01", "2014-05-01", "2014-06-01"
), ` NDVI` = c("0.3793765496776215", "0.21686891782421552", "0.3785652933528299",
"0.41027240624704164", "0.4035578030242673", "0.341299793064468"
)), row.names = c(NA, -6L), class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame"
)), structure(list(observation = 1:6, time = c("2014-01-01",
"2014-02-01", "2014-03-01", "2014-04-01", "2014-05-01", "2014-06-01"
), ` NDVI` = c("0.4071076986818826", "0.09090719657570319", "0.35214166081795284",
"0.4444311032927228", "0.5220702877666005", "0.5732370503295022"
)), row.names = c(NA, -6L), class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame"
)), structure(list(observation = 1:6, time = c("2014-01-01",
"2014-02-01", "2014-03-01", "2014-04-01", "2014-05-01", "2014-06-01"
), ` NDVI` = c("0.3412131556625801", "0.18815996897460135", "0.5218904976415136",
"0.6970128777711452", "0.7229657162729096", "0.535967435470161"
)), row.names = c(NA, -6L), class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame"
)))
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Answer 1

First we need to clean your data. The first element in this list is empty
df = df[-1]
Now we need to make a data.frame
df = do.call(rbind, df)
I am going to add a region variable, change the name of NDVI to remove the space,
change ndvi into a numeric vector, and change time into a Date object
library(dplyr)
df = df %>%
mutate(region = factor(rep(1:3, rep(6, 3)))) %>%
rename(ndvi = ' NDVI') %>%
mutate(ndvi = as.numeric(ndvi)) %>%
mutate(time = as.Date(time))
Now we can use ggplot2 to plot the data by region
library(ggplot2)
g = df %>%
ggplot(aes(x = time, y = ndvi, col = region)) +
geom_line()
g
Which gives this plot:

Answer 2

Here's an approach with lubridate to handle dates and dplyr to make the binding of the data.frames easier to understand.
Note that the group names are taken from the names of the list, and since those don't exist in the data you provided, we have to set them in advance.
library(lubridate)
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
names(data) <- 1:3
data <- bind_rows(data, .id = "group")
data$time <- ymd(data$time)
setnames(data," NDVI","NDVI")
data$NDVI <- as.numeric(data$NDVI)
ggplot(data, aes(x=time,y=NDVI,color=Group)) + geom_line()