How to avoid overlapping in ggplot2 boxplot?

Question

I want to plot the boxplot:

library("ggplot2")
p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(class, hwy))
p + geom_boxplot(aes(colour = drv))

but the boxplot showed overlapped within each class.

How can I add distance between boxes？

Answer 1

just try following variant

library("ggplot2") dodge <- position_dodge(width = 0.9) p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(class, hwy)) p+geom_boxplot(aes(fill = drv),position=dodge)

With position=dodge you can set the distance between boxplots Hope this helps

Best

Pavlo