ggplot2 boxplot with space respect between boxes

Question

I display a boxplot chart as following:

But what I would like is to have the x axis as real x axis, meaning that the space between values should be respected. Adding to this scale I would like a log scale on the x axis. How can I do this using geom_boxplot?

thanks, Jerome

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 23 '16 at 08:51

what I would like is to have the x axis as real x axis, meaning that the space between values should be respected. Adding to this scale I would like a log scale on the x axis. How can I do this using geom_boxplot?

You could do

set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(x=rep(c(1,10,50,100), each=10), y=runif(40))
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(df, aes(x, y, group=x)) + 
  geom_boxplot() + 
  scale_x_log10() + 
  theme_minimal()

ggplot2 boxplot with space respect between boxes

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