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I am having trouble with scaling my barplots when there are some extreme counts. As it goes up much higher it is extremely difficult to see the lower counts and compare them on a plot.

I would like to break the barplot in order to rescale it (I know rescaling is bad plotting but I only want to do it when required).

Something similar to the following image that I found in the link attached would great.

Broken barPlot

https://alesandrab.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/broken-column-and-bar-charts/

StatMan
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  • You could consider making a facet plot with free scales. Or you could create one plot for each series and arrange them using grid.arrange. – Heroka Nov 19 '15 at 16:56
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    It kinda defies the purpose of the bar plot. If you want to go _there_ why not use a log scale? – Eric Fail Nov 19 '15 at 16:57
  • This post can partially help. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19612348/break-x-axis-in-r – S Das Nov 19 '15 at 17:00
  • I've previously provided [an answer on SO](http://stackoverflow.com/a/10508395/1305688) to almost the same question. – Eric Fail Nov 22 '15 at 15:31

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