ggplot x axis order days - r

I have a dataset currently sorted by date and time. I have a column called 'day' and is just the day of the month, in numerical form i.e. 1-31
I have a 14 days stretch that I want to plot, however it starts from 30th of one month, to the 13th of the next.
When I try to plot it, it orders 1-13,30,31.
How can I plot the x axis as it is found within the dataframe?
Thanks.

Make sample data with columns day and value.
df<-data.frame(day=c(30,31,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8),value=rnorm(10))
If column day contains just day values as numbers you can convert them to factor and set levels as original order of values.
ggplot(df,aes(factor(day,levels=df$day),value,group=1))+geom_line()

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