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I have made a plot with three boxplots. I would like to get the boxplots closer together, so to have less space between the values on the x-axis and btween the boxes. But I just can't figure out how. Does anyone have an idea? My code:

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(data = groupA1, 
       mapping = aes(x = reorder(treatment, `mass wetness`, median, na.rm = TRUE), y = `mass wetness`)) + 
  geom_boxplot(postion = "dodge", width = 0.5, fill = "orange", position = "dodge") + theme_classic() +
  labs(x = "Treatment", y = "Mass wetness (%)")
Anna
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  • Please [make this question reproducible](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example) by including example data in a plain text format - for example the output from `dput(groupA1)`. – neilfws Feb 04 '21 at 22:33
  • Apparently [this answered question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17047558/spacing-between-boxplots-in-ggplot2) is very similar to yours. – rodrigocfaria Feb 05 '21 at 00:22

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Just change your position argument inside geom_boxplot to be:

position=position_dodge(x)

Where x is a number, for example 0.5.

JamesR
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