I have a bar-chart that looks like this: <pre class="prettyprint"><code>ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = cyl, y = hp)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity", width = 1) </code></pre> I want to tweak the <code>geom_bar</code> parameters so that the bars are shifted to the right (not centred)... <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/suwjQ.png" alt="enter image description here">

Try this: <pre class="prettyprint"><code>ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = cyl, y = hp)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity", width = 1, position = position_nudge(x = 0.5)) </code></pre> How I figured this out: Went to <code>?geom_bar</code> and saw that there was a postion argument and a link to <code>?position_dodge</code>. Look at the examples there and made modifications to your code. Seems to be a satisfactory solution.

Shift geom_bar right (not center-aligned)

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I have a bar-chart that looks like this:

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = cyl, y = hp)) + 
    geom_bar(stat = "identity", width = 1)

I want to tweak the geom_bar parameters so that the bars are shifted to the right (not centred)...

enter image description here

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asked Aug 03 '16 20:08

emehex

1 Answers

Try this:

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = cyl, y = hp)) + 
 geom_bar(stat = "identity", width = 1, position = position_nudge(x = 0.5))

How I figured this out: Went to ?geom_bar and saw that there was a postion argument and a link to ?position_dodge. Look at the examples there and made modifications to your code. Seems to be a satisfactory solution.