increase spacing between groups in a bar plot
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4.0 years ago
Assa Yeroslaviz ★ 1.9k

I put this structure into a bar plot

structure(list(mgi_symbol = c("Arc", "Arc", "Arc", "Arc", "Arc", 
"Arc", "Arc", "Arc", "Arc", "Arc", "Arc", "Arc", "Arc", "Arc", 
"Arc", "Arc"), group = 1:16, mean_count = c(57.8131751359466, 
225.701671404033, 50.2793245979203, 28.4576116000487, 38.9853484696232, 
124.743897697401, 51.4225337432011, 38.5286843470036, 66.2717149982308, 
527.925197470046, 174.55076156097, 40.6146647021935, 60.6998522803835, 
411.900936872793, 131.029181008508, 45.8555812038525), cond = c("WT", 
"GCN2-KO", "GCN1-KO", "GCN2-GCN1-KO", "WT", "GCN2-KO", "GCN1-KO", 
"GCN2-GCN1-KO", "WT", "GCN2-KO", "GCN1-KO", "GCN2-GCN1-KO", "WT", 
"GCN2-KO", "GCN1-KO", "GCN2-GCN1-KO")), row.names = c(NA, -16L
), groups = structure(list(mgi_symbol = "Arc", .rows = structure(list(
    1:16), ptype = integer(0), class = c("vctrs_list_of", "vctrs_vctr", 
"list"))), row.names = 1L, class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame"
), .drop = TRUE), class = c("grouped_df", "tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame"
))

(this is only a subset of my data I use to facet_wrap to plot the complete dataset)

I would like to better group together each group of four time points and increase the spacing between them, meaning after each 0h,1h,4, and 8h I would like to increase the spacing I have tried with adding the position_dodge(width = ) parameter, but it doesn't change anyhting visible.

The command I used to create the plot is as such

ggplot(data = d, aes(x=group, y=mean_count, fill=cond)) +
  geom_bar(stat = "identity", width = 0.9, position = position_dodge(width=0.9)) +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = 1:16, labels=rep(x = c("0h", "1h", "4h", "8h"), times =4)) +
#  scale_x_discrete(breaks=CorrectOrder[-1]) +
  facet_wrap(~mgi_symbol, scales = "free", ncol = 3)

thanks

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I have found it myself, thanks. and this is why I added, that I tried with the dodge option, but it didn't work.

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could you post your ggplot command in order to reproduce your plot ?

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added above, sorry, I forgot.

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you don't actually make use of the dodging because your groups are unique. What are the entries of group supposed to capture? You need to add a group ID that captures the sets that you want to plot as a group as shown in the blue square annotation above.

EDIT: read your code more carefully, so now I get that these are supposed to be the time slots.

> df$time <- c(rep("0h", 4), rep("1h", 4), rep("4h", 4), rep("8h", 4))
> ggplot(df, aes(x = time, y = mean_count, fill = cond)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity", position = position_dodge())
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