[R] ggplot geom_boxplot vertical margins

Justin Haynes jtor14 at gmail.com
Wed May 18 23:04:02 CEST 2011


Exactly!

Thanks, I couldn't find that anywhere!

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Felipe Carrillo
<mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is this what you want? You can control how much space you
> want to see on the sides of the plot:
>
> df<-data.frame(x=factor(1:100),y=rnorm(1000))
> ggplot(df,aes(x=x,y=y))+geom_boxplot() + scale_x_discrete(expand=c(0,0))
>
>
>
> Felipe D. Carrillo
> Supervisory Fishery Biologist
> Department of the Interior
> US Fish & Wildlife Service
> California, USA
> http://www.fws.gov/redbluff/rbdd_jsmp.aspx
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Justin Haynes <jtor14 at gmail.com>
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Sent: Wed, May 18, 2011 1:51:19 PM
>> Subject: [R] ggplot geom_boxplot vertical margins
>>
>> If you plot:
>>
>> df<-data.frame(x=factor(1:100),y=rnorm(1000))
>> ggplot(df,aes(x=x,y=y))+geom_boxplot()
>>
>> How do I remove those pesky margins on the sides of the plot area?  Or
>> maybe just reduce their size to something more like the spacing of the
>> boxes?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Justin
>>
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