`geom_col` mishandles x-axis `Date` with decimals

[thibautjombart]

geom_col does not handle Date on the x-axis when these contain decimals. Note that the input is still a valid Date object. This currently breaks incidence::plot.incidence as reported in this issue.

library(ggplot2)
x <- data.frame(date = Sys.Date() + 1:10, 
                y = 1:10)


## this works
ggplot(x) + geom_col(aes(x = date, y = y))

## this does not
ggplot(x) + geom_col(aes(x = date + 0.5, y = y))

## not sure if it affects other geoms; geom_point is fine:
ggplot(x) + geom_point(aes(x = date + 0.5, y = y))

^{Created on 2020-03-09 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

[thomasp85]

This is potentially a fallout from the bidirectional geom detection. We will look into a fix

[zkamvar]

Hello, this issue should not have been closed. It is still alive and kicking with ggplot2 3.3.1:

library(ggplot2)
x <- data.frame(date = Sys.Date() + 1:10, y = 1:10)
## This works
ggplot(x) + geom_col(aes(x = date, y = y))

ggplot(x) + geom_col(aes(date + 0.5, y = y))

^{Created on 2020-06-06 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

[yutannihilation]

You need to wait for 3.3.2.

[zkamvar]

Can this issue be re-opened?

[thomasp85]

No, because it is already fixed in master