How about jittering outside the plot?
That is, insert
df$jNum <- jitter(df$Number)
somewhere before the plot commands, then use jNum in your plots instead of
Number.
-Don
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On 9/17/15, 8:20 AM, "R-help on behalf of smheas"
<r-help-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of sheas...@aegonusa.com> wrote:
>Hello, I have created a boxplot with the data points overlayed on top
>using
>the below code. I am happy with the way the datapoints are jittered,
>however
>I cannot figure out how to get the labels to jitter along with the
>datapoints. The labels remain in the center and are unreadable. I have
>tried
>a lot of different ways to get them to jitter but can't seem to make it
>work. I have also tried making the label font smaller, but they still
>overlap too much. Note I cannot use the method of assigning the lcoation
>of
>each label - there are too many and this graph will be updated frequently
>with new data. I greatly appreciate your help. Thanks.
>
>After reading in data...
>
>#load packages
>library(ggplot2)
>#change letter to factor
>df$Letter<-as.factor(df$Letter)
>#create boxplot
>plot<-qplot(Letter,Number,data=df,geom=c("boxplot","jitter"),fill=Letter)
>#Add formatting
>plot<-plot + geom_text(aes(label=Identifier),size=3)
>ggsave(filename="Spreads Plot.pdf",plot=plot,width=11,height=8,units="in")
>
>Result:
><http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4712380/PostPic.png>
>
>Sample Data:
>Identifier Letter Number
>AB AA- 46.74
>BC A 59.62
>CD A 61.63
>DE A 69.49
>EF A+ 69.73
>FG A+ 74.57
>GH A 75.01
>HI A 77.52
>IJ A 77.52
>JK A 80.12
>KL A 80.14
>LM A- 80.35
>MN A 81.98
>NO A- 82.72
>OP A+ 83.56
>PQ A 85.29
>QR A- 85.46
>RS A- 85.92
>ST A 86.11
>TU A- 86.55
>UV A 86.57
>VW A 88.32
>WX A 89.4
>XY A- 96.81
>YZ A+ 97.6
>BA A- 101.86
>CB A 102.37
>DC A 104.29
>ED A 104.92
>FE A 106.29
>GF A- 111.84
>HG A+ 121.91
>IH A- 123.64
>
>
>
>
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