ggplot2: Bars between x-axis ticks

2
votes

The data I need to visualise contains passenger loads on a train between 4 stations. The data is provided in an ordered fashion, ie. between Station A and V there are 432 passengers on the train, between V and B 543 and so on. In the coding example I have ploted the data with ggplot2.

library(tidyverse)

df <- tribble(~Station, ~Passengers,
              "A", 432,
              "V", 543,
              "B", 435,
              "Q", 0)

df$Station <- factor(df$Station, levels=unique(df$Station))

ggplot(data = df, aes(x = Station, y = Passengers)) + 
  geom_bar(stat = "identity")

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The problem: I would like to position the x-axis ticks and Station names between the bars. The goal is to shift the bars 50% to the right.

1
rggplot2axes
Take a look at the nudge functions. – Wil

1 Answers

3
votes

We can use position_nudge to adjust the bars:

ggplot(data = df, aes(x = Station, y = Passengers)) + 
  geom_bar(stat = "identity", position = position_nudge(x = 0.5))

enter image description here