ggplot specify position of vertical segments for categorical x r

Question

I am plotting row data and I added a segment of the credible intervals and a black point for the fitted values statistically calculated.

My problem is that I would like to have these lines (and the black point) slightly moved (horizontally) respect to the row data.

I tried jitter and all the possible combinations of it, the results are terrible because I get the values of y start and end from different columns...hence with jitter the lines are not anymore horizontal.

I tried to add a fixed value to the x (pb_values) however it gives me an error because my x is a factor.

dat_stack1 (my dataset):

dat_stack1<-data.frame(pb_cluster= rep(3:5, 6))
dat_stack1$pb_cluster<-factor(dat_stack1$pb_cluster)
dat_stack1$total<-c(28,  12,   3, 326,  14, 125,  74,  40, 115, 382,  70,  36,  36,  23,  28,185,19,107)
dat_stack1$couple<-factor(c(1, 1,  1,  2,  2,  2,  5,  5,  5,  8,  8,  8,  9,  9,  9,  11, 11, 11))
dat_stack1$lower<-c(55, 0.1851138,  8.9413495, 55.5002200,  0.1851138,  8.9413495, 55.5002200,  0.1851138,  8.9413495, 55.5002200,  0.1851138,  8.9413495, 55.5002200,  0.1851138,  8.9413495, 55.5002200,  0.1851138,  8.9413495)
dat_stack1$upper<-c(225.47047,  68.04097, 114.92182, 225.47047,  68.04097, 114.92182, 225.47047,  68.04097, 114.92182, 225.47047,68.04097,114.92182, 225.47047,  68.04097, 114.92182, 225.47047,  68.04097, 114.92182)
dat_stack1$fit<-c(124.93260,  18.87026, 46.84022,124.93260, 18.87026,46.84022,124.93260, 18.87026, 46.84022, 124.93260, 18.87026,  46.84022,124.93260,  18.87026,  46.84022, 124.93260 ,18.87026 ,46.84022)


g<-g_stack<-ggplot(data=dat_stack1, aes(x=pb_cluster,  y = total, shape=couple))+
geom_point()+
scale_x_discrete(limits=c("3","4","5"),                                                                                        labels=c("mate", "familiar","unfamiliar"))+
theme(axis.text.x  = element_text(angle=90))+
geom_segment(aes(x=pb_cluster, xend=pb_cluster, y = lower, yend = upper))+
geom_point(aes(x=pb_cluster,  y = fit),color="black")

Unfortunately my reputation is too low to post images!But the code is now reproducible

Any idea how to move these vertical lines?

What I tried:

geom_segment(aes(x=pb_cluster, xend=pb_cluster,
             y = lower, yend = upper)+position="jitter")

and

geom_segment(aes(x=pb_cluster +0.1, xend=pb_cluster+0.1, 
             y = lower, yend = upper))

And all the possible combinations of parentheses.

Of course I looked online for similar graph but couldn't find any--> usually vertical lines are calculated directly from the data points and not added to the row data from different columns!

Answer 1

If your x values really are factors then you can uses as.numeric() around x values in geom_segment() and last geom_point() to be able to add some small constant and then shift line and point.

ggplot(data=dat_stack1, aes(x=pb_cluster,  y = total, shape=couple))+
      geom_point()+
      scale_x_discrete(limits=c("3","4","5"),labels=c("mate", "familiar","unfamiliar"))+
      theme(axis.text.x  = element_text(angle=90))+
      geom_segment(aes(x=as.numeric(pb_cluster)+.1, xend=as.numeric(pb_cluster)+.1,
                                                  y = lower, yend = upper))+
      geom_point(aes(x=as.numeric(pb_cluster)+0.1,  y = fit),color="black")