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Issue with geom_bar + position_dodge

I have want to plot errorbars as well as text with my barchart. In order to make a nice and readable plot, I'd like the errorbars to be left (for the left bar) and right (for the right bar) of the geom_text element. I would do this using position_dodge but somehow this has no influence if the bars aren't grouped.

Here is my code:

df1 <- data.frame(e=c(0.02,0.02), na=c("A","B"), value=c(0.25, 0.75))

ggplot(df1, aes(x=factor(na), y=value, fill=factor(na)))+
   geom_bar(stat="identity", width=0.2)+
   geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = value-e, ymax = value+e), width = 0.01, size=0.5, 
        alpha=.6)+
   geom_text(aes(label=paste0(round(value*100,0),"%"), vjust=-0.5), 
        size=5)

This produces the same plot:

ggplot(df1, aes(x=factor(na), y=value, fill=factor(na)))+
   geom_bar(stat="identity", width=0.2)+
   geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = value-e, ymax = value+e), width = 0.01, size=0.5, 
        alpha=.6, position=position_dodge(width=0.2))+
   geom_text(aes(label=paste0(round(value*100,0),"%"), vjust=-0.5), 
        size=5)

enter image description here

How can I move my errorbars left/right?

Thanks

Solution

  • You can use the x aesthetic to specify the x position of the errorbars. Although the usual idiom to deal with this would be to keep the error bars centered, and shift the text (vertically preferably)

    ggplot(df1, aes(x=factor(na), y=value, fill=factor(na)))+
  geom_bar(stat="identity", width=0.2)+
  geom_errorbar(aes(x = as.integer(factor(na)) +c(-0.1,0.1), ymin = value-e, ymax = value+e), width = 0.01, size=0.5, 
                alpha=.6)+
  geom_text(aes(label=paste0(round(value*100,0),"%"), vjust=-0.5), 
            size=5)