I had never thought of violins. It might be interesting. However , I still think there maybe some use out of the 4-panel approach.
What does your vioilin code look like? Using Denis' code gg<- ggplot(dat1, aes(x = condition, y = t, color = gender, linetype = direction)) + geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = t - ci, ymax = t + ci), position = position_dodge(width = 0.6), size = 1, width = 0.5) + geom_point(position = position_dodge(width = 0.6), size = 2.5) + facet_wrap(direction ~ location) + scale_color_manual(values = c("blue", "darkorange"))+ theme_bw()+ scale_y_continuous(breaks=seq(0.6,1.5,0.1)) gg John Kane Kingston ON Canada -----Original Message----- From: hyil...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 01:20:06 +0800 To: jrkrid...@inbox.com Subject: Re: [R] ggplot2 shifting bars to only overlap in groups Again, I come to think about violin plots which is more informative than the error bars. But for some reason, the violin in the *west* became way too slimmer than the *east* one, though the density plot tells me that is not necessarily the case. I am still trying to figure that out, and that would be even more irrelevant as long as *shifting bars in gorups*. So maybe I will come up with another post later when I got the solution. 祝好, ======================== He who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy to receive* all else* from you (and me). The Prophet, Gibran Kahlil On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:59 PM, John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote: Lovely, a much more elegant solution. John Kane Kingston ON Canada -----Original Message----- From: hyil...@gmail.com Sent: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 02:30:09 +0800 To: jrkrid...@inbox.com, djmu...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [R] ggplot2 shifting bars to only overlap in groups Thanks so much, John and Dennis (who did not respond in the mailing list for some reason). I feel quite obliged to keep you thinking about this. I do agree that not using the bar chart with error bars is a better option. And since *condition* is an important ordinal factor for me, it would be much better to have *condition* be positioned at a relative order. Thus, only color coding it as John's latest solution would not be optimal. It would have been better with the random data, but with my actual data, it does seem necessary to do a jitter for the *male* since it got clattered in the *west*. Here is the actual data along with the solution based on Dennis' code: ## data dat1 <- structure(list(t = c(1.2454860689532, 0.627186899108052, 0.877176019393987, 1.26720638917869, 1.16906482219006, 0.889738853288831, 0.852034797572489, 1.30007600828822, 1.22896141479778, 0.820236562746995, 0.822197641624559, 1.39529772379005, 1.10479557445486, 0.760017179713665, 0.761340230517717, 1.11132156961026, 1.30042963441715, 0.811425854755042, 0.979421690403349, 1.3297658281305, 1.13377482477157, 0.895243910826397, 0.874181486658082, 1.15728885642541, 1.11121780853125, 0.703348405369258, 0.850897112058048, 1.14260584106012, 1.09383015337114, 0.911388765620587, 0.84622335453925, 1.09847968194129), condition = structure(c(4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L), .Label = c("c1", "c2", "c2", "c4"), class = "factor"), direction = structure(c(1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("up", "down"), class = "factor"), location = structure(c(2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L), .Label = c("east", "west"), class = "factor"), gender = structure(c(2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("male", "female"), class = "factor"), ci = c(0.0307396796826649, 0.0302954863637637, 0.0400142340797275, 0.0527186825100342, 0.051675810189946, 0.0368383294010065, 0.0404823188495183, 0.0526312391852324, 0.0347332720922338, 0.0354587857740343, 0.0303368490163547, 0.0710445198259065, 0.0229339653012889, 0.0261217906562281, 0.0285673216713352, 0.0351642108247828, 0.0542657646932069, 0.0566816739316165, 0.0481239729953889, 0.0434272572423839, 0.0497366325101659, 0.0342004255233646, 0.0349733697554762, 0.0405364256564456, 0.0478372176424872, 0.0341294939361437, 0.0424566961614424, 0.0463489561778199, 0.0191707406475215, 0.0501106812754005, 0.0321562411182704, 0.0218613299095178)), .Names = c("t", "condition", "direction", "location", "gender", "ci"), row.names = c(NA, -32L ), class = "data.frame") pp <- ggplot(dat1, aes(x = condition, y = t, color = gender, linetype = direction)) + geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = t - ci, ymax = t + ci), position = position_dodge(width = 0.6), size = 1, width = 0.5) + geom_point(position = position_dodge(width = 0.6), size = 2.5) + facet_wrap(~ location) + scale_color_manual(values = c("blue", "darkorange"))+ theme_bw()+ scale_y_continuous(breaks=seq(0.6,1.5,0.1)) pp ## EOF I have also attached the output. 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