Feature request: an option to remove leading zeros in `label_date_short()`

[lz1nwm]

Is it possible to implement an option to remove leading zeros in label_date_short()?

[teunbrand]

The format.Date() via strptime() does not support no leading characters. You can replace the zero with a space though:

x <- seq(Sys.Date(), Sys.Date() + 365, by = "1 month")
labels <- scales::label_date_short(format = c("%Y", "%b", "%e", "%H:%M"))
labels(x)
#>  [1] " 3\nOct\n2024" " 3\nNov"       " 3\nDec"       " 3\nJan\n2025"
#>  [5] " 3\nFeb"       " 3\nMar"       " 3\nApr"       " 3\nMay"      
#>  [9] " 3\nJun"       " 3\nJul"       " 3\nAug"       " 3\nSep"      
#> [13] " 3\nOct"

^{Created on 2024-10-03 with reprex v2.1.1}

There is also a rumour that you can use "%-d" on non-Windows platforms can format the day without leading 0, but I can't verify this at the moment.

[lz1nwm]

Thanks, I know that but it doesn't look centered. I thought that it could be as simple as implementing something like:

gsub("^0", "", format(as.Date("2024-09-02"), "%m\n%Y"))

...but maybe it's not