[R] ggplot barchart: bars don't stock on breaks

[Boris Steipe]

Barcharts are for categorical data, the axis only serves to organize the category labels. From the sound of it, you are looking for a histogram.

Hope this helps,
Boris


On Jan 12, 2015, at 8:31 AM, najuzz <mjoey at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi guys, I have the following weired problem. I just want a simple barchart,
> but the visuals are different from what I expect.
> 
> xx<-as.vector(xx)
> xx[1:4852]<-0
> xx[4853:5941]<-1
> table(xx)
> x<-data.frame(xx)
> 
> ggplot(x,aes(xx))+geom_bar(binwidth = 0.5)
> 
> <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4701665/problem.jpeg> 
> 
> I don't know if you can see the image so here is a description of my
> problem: the bars should be centered around O and 1, however both bars begin
> to the right of 0 and 1, so in this case with binwidth= 0.5 they range from
> 0 to 0.5 and 1 to 1.5.
> How can I fix this?
> 
> Thank you,
> Johannes
> 
> 
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