Increase space between bars in ggplot
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You can adjust the width outside of the position_dodge
as well (in geom_bar
),
ggplot(data=df, aes(x=Gene, y=FC, fill=expt, group=expt)) +
geom_bar(colour="black", stat="identity", position = position_dodge(width = 0.8), width=0.5) +
geom_errorbar(aes(ymax = FC + se, ymin = FC, group=expt),
position = position_dodge(width = 0.8), width = 0.25)
or
dodge <- position_dodge(width = 0.5)
ggplot(data=df, aes(x=Gene, y=FC, fill=expt, group=expt)) +
geom_bar(colour="black", stat="identity", position=dodge, width=0.5) +
geom_errorbar(aes(ymax = FC + se, ymin = FC, group=expt),
position = dodge, width = 0.25)
Author by
fugu
Updated on August 07, 2022Comments
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fugu over 1 year
I have a bar plot:
p <- ggplot(data=df, aes(x=Gene, y=FC, fill=expt, group=expt)) p <- p + geom_bar(colour="black", stat="identity", position = position_dodge(width = 0.9)) p <- p + geom_errorbar(aes(ymax = FC + se, ymin = FC, group=expt), position = position_dodge(width = 0.9), width = 0.25) p
I want to increase the spacing between bars (for each bin). I've tried messing around with the
position_dodge(width = ...)
but it skews my error bars:There are several other questions that relate to this:
- This question has an answer that seems to do the trick (but difficult to implement)
- When I use the answer to this question I get the following:
i.e it seems to increase the between bins, but at the expense of overlapping with the neighbouring bar
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fugu almost 9 yearsThanks, but it's still not clear to me what controls the space between factors and the space between treatments.
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fugu almost 9 yearsi.e how would I adjust your code to keep the factors together but slightly decrease the spacing between them? Essentially your second illustration but with the spaces reduced
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Rorschach almost 9 years@fugu just increase both widths (position and bar) to, say, 0.7