R: ggplot: Problem automatically picking scale for difftime object

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While reading ‘Why The R Programming Language Is Good For Business‘ I came across Udacity’s ‘Data Analysis with R‘ courses – part of which focuses exploring data sets using visualisations, something I haven’t done much of yet.
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I thought it’d be interesting to create some visualisations around the times that people…