Specification of first and last tick marks with scale_x_date

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To ensure that axis is not expanded you can add argument expand = c(0, 0) to scale_x_date().

qplot(dateVec, myData) + 
scale_x_date(breaks = "4 weeks", limits = c(min(dateVec), max = max(dateVec)),
             expand=c(0,0)) +  
theme(axis.text.x  = element_text(size = 10, angle = 45, colour = "black",
      vjust = 1, hjust = 1))

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UPDATE

If you need ticks that start with minimal and maximal dates then you can define your own breaks. For this I made vector break.vec containing minimal and maximal date as well as dates by month between them. Then used this vector to set breaks in scale_x_date().

break.vec <- c(as.Date("2011-11-21"),
               seq(from = as.Date("2011-12-01"), to = as.Date("2012-11-01"),
                 by = "month"),
               as.Date("2012-11-23"))

qplot(dateVec, myData) + 
  scale_x_date(breaks = break.vec) +  
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(size = 10, angle = 45, colour = "black",
                                   vjust = 1, hjust = 1))

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