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  1. POBar graph in ggplot2 with width as a variable and even spacing between bars
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    <p>So I am trying to make a stacked bar graph with bar width mapped to a variable; but I want the spacing between my bars to be constant.</p> <p>Does anyone know how to make the spacing constant between the bars?</p> <p>Right now I've got this:</p> <pre><code>p&lt;-ggplot(dd, aes(variable, value.y, fill=Date, width=value.x / 15))+ coord_flip() + opts(ylab="") p1&lt;-p+ geom_bar(stat="identity") + scale_fill_brewer(palette="Dark2") + scale_fill_hue(l=55,c=55) p2&lt;-p1 + opts(axis.title.x = theme_blank(), axis.title.y = theme_blank()) p2 </code></pre> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/62k6s.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>Thanks in advance.</p> <p>Here's my data by the way (sorry for the long, bulky dput):</p> <pre><code>&gt; dput(dd) structure(list(variable = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L), .Label = c("Alcohol and Tobacco", "Health and Personal Care", "Clothing", "Energy", "Recreation and Education", "Household", "Food", "Transportation", "Shelter"), class = "factor", scores = structure(c(2.91, 5.31, 10.08, 15.99, 4.95, 11.55, 11.2, 27.49, 20.6), .Dim = 9L, .Dimnames = list( c("Alcohol and Tobacco", "Clothing", "Energy", "Food", "Health and Personal Care", "Household", "Recreation and Education", "Shelter", "Transportation" )))), value.x = c(2.91, 2.91, 2.91, 2.91, 2.91, 5.31, 5.31, 5.31, 5.31, 5.31, 10.08, 10.08, 10.08, 10.08, 10.08, 15.99, 15.99, 15.99, 15.99, 15.99, 4.95, 4.95, 4.95, 4.95, 4.95, 11.55, 11.55, 11.55, 11.55, 11.55, 11.2, 11.2, 11.2, 11.2, 11.2, 27.49, 27.49, 27.49, 27.49, 27.49, 20.6, 20.6, 20.6, 20.6, 20.6), Date = structure(c(5L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 5L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 5L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 5L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 5L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 5L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 5L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 5L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 1L, 5L, 4L, 3L, 2L, 1L), .Label = c("1993-2001", "2001-2006", "2007-2010", "2010-2011", "2012 Jan - May"), class = "factor"), value.y = c(2.1, 2.5, 7.6, 21.7, 2.8, 1.5, 0.3, -4.1, -4.2, 4.7, 3, 16.9, 1.9, 32.8, 23.9, 3.2, 4.6, 11.3, 8.9, 12.9, 1.7, 2, 7.8, 5.9, 10, 1.9, 2.1, 5.6, 2.2, 9.9, 1.4, 1.3, 2.2, 0.6, 17.3, 1.1, 2.3, 6.4, 13.1, 10, 4.3, 7.6, 0.9, 15.2, 20.5)), .Names = c("variable", "value.x", "Date", "value.y" ), row.names = c(NA, -45L), class = "data.frame") </code></pre>
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