Dear Thierry, Thank you, that worked excellently, and good point about being potentially misleading. That had not occurred to me.
Thanks again, Josh On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:05 AM, ONKELINX, Thierry <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote: > Dear Joshua, > > You can accomplish that by setting the position argument in geom_bar to > position_dodge(width = 0). > > ggplot(plot.means, aes(x=index, y=means, fill=factor(hilow))) + > geom_bar(position = position_dodge(width = 0.1), stat="identity") > > But such a plot can be very misleading. Therefore I would suggest to use at > least width = 0.1. This way the reader can see that the bars in the > background starts at 0. > > HTH, > > Thierry > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ir. Thierry Onkelinx > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek > team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg > Gaverstraat 4 > 9500 Geraardsbergen > Belgium > > Research Institute for Nature and Forest > team Biometrics & Quality Assurance > Gaverstraat 4 > 9500 Geraardsbergen > Belgium > > tel. + 32 54/436 185 > thierry.onkel...@inbo.be > www.inbo.be > > To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than > asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what > the experiment died of. > ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher > > The plural of anecdote is not data. > ~ Roger Brinner > > The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not > ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. > ~ John Tukey > > >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org >> [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Namens Joshua Wiley >> Verzonden: dinsdag 11 mei 2010 16:42 >> Aan: r-help@r-project.org >> Onderwerp: [R] barplot in ggplot2 >> >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to make a barplot of means where the difference between >> the barheights is a different color. My goal is to convey the same >> information as a dodged barplot, but with only four bars. Below is >> the data I am working with, and the two plots I have tried. The >> stacked plot would be great, if they were stacked in front of each >> other. Any ideas on how to do this would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Josh >> >> ############################## >> plot.means <- structure(list(means = c(2.35, 1.8, 2.26086956521739, >> 1.90909090909091, 1.88333333333333, 1.73846153846154, >> 1.93333333333333, 1.75), hilow = c(0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1), index = >> c(1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 4L)), row.names = c(NA, -8L), .Names = >> c("means", "hilow", "index"), class = "data.frame") >> >> ##Uncomment below if ggplot2 is not already loaded >> #library(ggplot2) >> ggplot(plot.means, aes(x=index, y=means, fill=factor(hilow))) + >> geom_bar(position="dodge", stat="identity") #dodged plot >> ggplot(plot.means, aes(x=index, y=means, fill=factor(hilow))) + >> geom_bar(stat="identity") #stacked plot >> >> ############################## >> >> >> -- >> Joshua Wiley >> Senior in Psychology >> University of California, Riverside >> http://www.joshuawiley.com/ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > Druk dit bericht a.u.b. niet onnodig af. > Please do not print this message unnecessarily. > > Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen geven enkel de visie van de schrijver weer > en binden het INBO onder geen enkel beding, zolang dit bericht niet bevestigd > is > door een geldig ondertekend document. The views expressed in this message > and any annex are purely those of the writer and may not be regarded as > stating > an official position of INBO, as long as the message is not confirmed by a > duly > signed document. > -- Joshua Wiley Senior in Psychology University of California, Riverside http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
