Description Usage Arguments See Also Examples
Dodging preserves the vertical position of an geom while adjusting the horizontal position.
1 | position_dodge(width = NULL, preserve = c("total", "single"))
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width |
Dodging width, when different to the width of the individual elements. This is useful when you want to align narrow geoms with wider geoms. See the examples. |
preserve |
Should dodging preserve the total width of all elements at a position, or the width of a single element? |
Other position adjustments: position_identity
,
position_jitterdodge
,
position_jitter
,
position_nudge
,
position_stack
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 | ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill = factor(vs))) +
geom_bar(position = "dodge")
# By default, dodging preserves the total width. You can choose
# to preserve the width of each element:
ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill = factor(vs))) +
geom_bar(position = position_dodge(preserve = "single"))
ggplot(diamonds, aes(price, fill = cut)) +
geom_histogram(position="dodge")
# see ?geom_boxplot and ?geom_bar for more examples
# In this case a frequency polygon is probably a better choice
ggplot(diamonds, aes(price, colour = cut)) +
geom_freqpoly()
# Dodging with various widths -------------------------------------
# To dodge items with different widths, you need to be explicit
df <- data.frame(x = c("a","a","b","b"), y = 2:5, g = rep(1:2, 2))
p <- ggplot(df, aes(x, y, group = g)) +
geom_col(position = "dodge", fill = "grey50", colour = "black")
p
# A line range has no width:
p + geom_linerange(aes(ymin = y - 1, ymax = y + 1), position = "dodge")
# So you must explicitly specify the width
p + geom_linerange(
aes(ymin = y - 1, ymax = y + 1),
position = position_dodge(width = 0.9)
)
# The same principle applies to error bars, which are usually
# narrower than the bars
p + geom_errorbar(
aes(ymin = y - 1, ymax = y + 1),
width = 0.2,
position = "dodge"
)
p + geom_errorbar(
aes(ymin = y - 1, ymax = y + 1),
width = 0.2,
position = position_dodge(width = 0.9)
)
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