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Barplot totals by month with ggplot?

Submitted by griffin on August 16, 2010

I have time series data (I've posted it here as a data.frame):

x <- structure(list(date = structure(c(1264572000, 1266202800, 1277362800, 
1277456400, 1277859600, 1278032400, 1260370800, 1260892800, 1262624400, 
1262707200), class = c("POSIXt", "POSIXct"), tzone = ""), data = c(-0.00183760994446658, 
0.00089738603087497, 0.000423513598318936, 0, -0.00216496690393131, 
-0.00434836817931339, -0.0224199153445617, 0.000583823085470003, 
0.000353088613905206, 0.000470295331234771)), .Names = c("date", 
"data"), row.names = c("1", "2", "3", 
"4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"
), class = "data.frame")

What's the best way to plot this as a bar plot in ggplot that would show the total value per month (with the month name as text)?

I can do this manually by adding a month field:

x$month <- format(x$date, format="%B")
ddply(x, .(month), function(x) sum(x[, "data"]))

Then plotting this independently, but the months are not ordered correctly using this approach (suppose that I need to create an ordered factor?); I am also presuming that there's an "easier" way with ggplot.