title: Day-Month versus year plot in R
body: <p>I have a csv file containing the following lines:</p>
  
  <pre><code>V1     V2
  1979   05/11/1979
  1980   06/14/1980
  1981   06/22/1981
  1982   06/02/1982
  1983   05/21/1983
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to plot this as Day-Month in the Y-axis and Year in the X-axis</p>
  
  <p>I tried to do the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>dat    &lt;-read.csv("test.csv",header=FALSE,sep=",")
  dat$V3 &lt;-as.Date(dat$V2,format="%m/%d/%y")
  plot(dat$V1,dat$V3)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The output is Year vs Year which is not what I want. Can anyone provide any tips on how to plot something like this?</p>
  
  <p>The output is like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q90bU.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q90bU.png" alt="Output image"></a></p>
  
  <p>What I want should look like this:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kb9XE.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kb9XE.gif" alt="Desired image"></a></p>
  
  <p>I'll appreciate any help.</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks in advance</p>