posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
No mini histogram for dates or POSIXct
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Description
System details:
Positron and OS details:
Positron Version: 2025.06.0 (Universal) build 167
Code - OSS Version: 1.100.0
Commit: e7e5d5590adc6bf7b760f837051cd2f57ea9e3dc
Date: 2025-05-29T20:44:08.369Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 24.5.0
Interpreter details:
R 4.5.0
Describe the issue:
The data explorer doesn't display a histogram for date or POSIXct columns
Steps to reproduce the issue:
tibble::tibble(
x = sample(-50:50, size = 100, replace = TRUE),
y = Sys.Date() + x,
z = Sys.time() + x
) |> View()
Expected or desired behavior:
It seems like it should be possible to display a histogram of dates or datetimes
Were there any error messages in the UI, Output panel, or Developer Tools console?
N/A
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the issue in the data explorer with the provided R tibble and View() example, then trace the histogram rendering path for date and POSIXct columns. Done means the explorer displays histograms for both date and datetime data without errors.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- r, typescript
- Domain
- data-visualization, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100