Remove certain datapoints from boxplot in ggplot2

Question

I have a box-plot of certain variables. I see the box plots of a number of days on x-axis (Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). I would like to know how to remove two of the box plots from the graph. To be specific, I don't want there to be a box plot of Monday and Wednesday. The code I used was:

ggplot(contents2019, aes(x = days, y = time)) +
  geom_boxplot() +
  xlab("Day") +
  ylab("Time") +
  theme_bw()

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score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 13 '19 at 19:03

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You can filter your dataframe beforehand:

library(tidyverse)

contents2019 %>%
  filter(!days %in% c("Monday", "Wednesday")) %>%  
  ggplot(aes(x = days, y = time)) +
  geom_boxplot() +
  xlab("Day") +
  ylab("Time") +
  theme_bw()

edited Feb 13 '19 at 19:03

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answered Feb 13 '19 at 18:55

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Remove certain datapoints from boxplot in ggplot2

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