Can you expand a bit on what is wrong with the dodge option? From what I see it looks lovely witht the points exactly lined with the boxplots for each group but perhaps I don't understand exactly what you want .
John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: thorn.tha...@rdls.nestle.com > Sent: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:43:03 +0200 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] ggplot: dodge positions > > Dear all, > > I want to get a series of boxplots (grouped by two factors) and I want to > overlay the original observations and the following code does almost what > I want: > > library(ggplot) > ddf <- data.frame(x=factor(rep(LETTERS[1:4], each=30)), y = > runif(120,0,10), grp = factor(rep(rep(1:3, 10), 4))) > ggplot(ddf, aes(x, y, colour=grp)) + geom_boxplot() + geom_point() > > Yet the position of the points and the position of the boxes on the > x-axis is not the same. I would like that the points are shifted > accordingly, such that they line up with the boxplots. I tried > position_dodge: > > ggplot(ddf, aes(x, y, colour=grp)) + geom_boxplot() + > geom_point(aes(ymax=max(y)), position = position_dodge(width=.75)) > > but that did not really help, as all points are now dodged and I just > want to have a fixed offset for each subgroup of points such that the > boxplot and the points are aligned. Any ideas? > > > Kind Regards, > > Thorn Thaler > Mathematician > > Applied Mathematics > Nestec Ltd, > Nestlé Research Center > PO Box 44 > CH-1000 Lausanne 26 > Phone: +41 21 785 8220 > Fax: +41 21 785 9486 ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and most webmails ______________________________________________ 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.
