I was told to use geom_jitter over geom_points and reason given in help is it handle overplotting better in smaller dataset. I am confused what does overplotting mean and why it occurs in smaller

Jul 14, 2015 · ggplot2 now has a separate geom for this called geom_jitter so you don't need the position = dodge or position = position_dodge()) argument. Here applied to OP's example:

Jan 15, 2021 · To call geom_points and geom_jitter on the same data does not make sense to me, as one is better suited for a discreet y-axis (geom_points()) and one for categorical data …

Aug 24, 2023 · I'm making a plot with facet_grid() and use both geom_point() and geom_errorbar() to make something resembling a coefficient plot, but where I have two groups …

Jul 4, 2018 · Listing names of colors in your geom as you did doesn't tell the color scale what colors to use—it just breaks values into categories. The strings "red" or "black" don't …

Jul 13, 2016 · geom_smooth(aes(x = dose, y = len), inherit.aes = FALSE, se = FALSE) If you really want your x axis to be categorical you need to draw the smoothed line through the …

Mar 12, 2021 · I'm doing a common R ggplot2 graph with boxplot: boxplots supplemented individual samples as points shown by geom_jitter (), to show the individual sample positions …

Attempting to repurpose code for political survey I found on reddit for much smaller sample size. I am creating a scatterplot using geom_jitter. Here is my code: ggplot (sae, aes (Alignment, …

Apr 18, 2016 · Is there a way to jitter the lines in geom_line()? I know it kinda defies the purpose of this plot, but if you have a plot with few lines and would like them all to show it could be …

Feb 21, 2014 · By using the facets for culture, we can assign an explicit aesthetic to status, which then allows to line up the geom_jitter with the geom_boxplot. Hopefully this is close enough for …