Become an expert in R — Interactive courses, Cheat Sheets, certificates and more!
Get Started for Free

position_jitter

Jitter points to avoid overplotting.


Description

Jitter points to avoid overplotting.

Usage

position_jitter(width = NULL, height = NULL)

Arguments

width, height

Amount of vertical and horizontal jitter. The jitter is added in both positive and negative directions, so the total spread is twice the value specified here.

If omitted, defaults to 40% of the resolution of the data: this means the jitter values will occupy 80% of the implied bins. Categorical data is aligned on the integers, so a width or height of 0.5 will spread the data so it's not possible to see the distinction between the categories.

See Also

Examples

ggplot(mtcars, aes(am, vs)) + geom_point()

# Default amount of jittering will generally be too much for
# small datasets:
ggplot(mtcars, aes(am, vs)) + geom_jitter()

# Two ways to override
ggplot(mtcars, aes(am, vs)) +
  geom_jitter(width = 0.1, height = 0.1)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(am, vs)) +
  geom_jitter(position = position_jitter(width = 0.1, height = 0.1))

# The default works better for large datasets, where it will
# take up as much space as a boxplot or a bar
ggplot(mpg, aes(class, hwy)) +
  geom_jitter() +
  geom_boxplot()

animint2

Animated Interactive Grammar of Graphics

v2020.9.18
GPL-3
Authors
Toby Hocking [aut, cre] (Original animint code), Hadley Wickham [aut] (Forked ggplot2 code), Winston Chang [aut] (Forked ggplot2 code), RStudio [cph] (Forked ggplot2 code), Nicholas Lewin-Koh [aut] (hexGrob), Martin Maechler [aut] (hexGrob), Randall Prium [aut] (cut_width), Susan VanderPlas [aut] (Animint GSOC 2013), Carson Sievert [aut] (Animint GSOC 2014), Kevin Ferris [aut] (Animint GSOC 2015), Jun Cai [aut] (Animint GSOC 2015), Faizan Khan [aut] (Animint GSOC 2016-2017), Vivek Kumar [aut] (Animint GSOC 2018), Himanshu Singh [aut] (Animint2 GSoC 2020)
Initial release

We don't support your browser anymore

Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.