Adding space between bars in ggplot2

Question

I'd like to add spaces between bars in ggplot2. This page offers one solution: http://www.streamreader.org/stats/questions/6204/how-to-increase-the-space-between-the-bars-in-a-bar-plot-in-ggplot2. Instead of using factor levels for the x-axis groupings, however, this solution creates a numeric sequence, x.seq, to manually place the bars and then scales them using the width() argument. width() doesn't work, however, when I use factor level groupings for the x-axis as in the example, below.

library(ggplot2)  Treatment <- rep(c('T','C'),each=2) Gender <- rep(c('M','F'),2) Response <- sample(1:100,4) df <- data.frame(Treatment, Gender, Response)  hist <- ggplot(df, aes(x=Gender, y=Response, fill=Treatment, stat="identity")) hist + geom_bar(position = "dodge") + scale_y_continuous(limits = c(0,      100), name = "")  

Does anyone know how to get the same effect as in the linked example, but while using factor level groupings?

Answer 1

Is this what you want?

hist + geom_bar(width=0.4, position = position_dodge(width=0.5)) 

• width in geom_bar determines the width of the bar.
• width in position_dodge determines the position of each bar.

Probably you can easily understand their behavior after you play with them for a while.