This question is based on this prior question.
Consider the following plot:
Domain = c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G",
"A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F",
"G", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G")
Area = c("State", "State",
"State", "State", "State", "State", "State", "National", "National",
"National", "National", "National", "National", "National", "State",
"State", "State", "State", "State", "State", "State", "National",
"National", "National", "National", "National", "National", "National")
race = c("White", "White", "White", "White", "White", "White",
"White", "White", "White", "White", "White", "White", "White",
"White", "Black", "Black", "Black", "Black", "Black", "Black",
"Black", "Black", "Black", "Black", "Black", "Black", "Black",
"Black")
pct_agreement = c(0.557610213756561, 0.735042750835419,
0.567375898361206, 0.633762538433075, 0.64091557264328, 0.750356614589691,
0.564539015293121, 0.651861846446991, 0.697574973106384, 0.653521358966827,
0.713940441608429, 0.680985689163208, 0.751584351062775, 0.642535984516144,
0.488484561443329, 0.581625580787659, 0.456939995288849, 0.580652594566345,
0.630399644374847, 0.711643815040588, 0.347775995731354, 0.627996683120728,
0.668737232685089, 0.610245823860168, 0.690373718738556, 0.705771028995514,
0.738830924034119, 0.550933301448822)
df <- data.frame(Domain, Area, race, pct_agreement)
library(tidyverse)
ggplot(df) +
geom_point(
aes(
x = Domain, y = pct_agreement, color = Area, shape = race,
group = Area
),
position = position_dodge(width = 1)
) +
coord_flip()
Now we want to turn it into a dumbbell plot by connecting each pair of points of the same domain and area. The obvious code would be the following:
df2 <- pivot_wider(df, names_from = race, values_from = pct_agreement)
ggplot(df) +
geom_point(
aes(
x = Domain, y = pct_agreement, color = Area, shape = race,
group = Area
),
position = position_dodge(width = 1)
) +
geom_segment(
data = df2,
aes(
x = Domain, xend = Domain, y = White, yend = Black,
color = Area
),
position = position_dodge(width = 1)
) +
coord_flip()
Created on 2019-11-08 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)
Yet, clearly, that didn't work, because position_dodge()
didn't dodge the xend
aesthetic. I consider this a bug in ggplot2 that probably should be fixed. However, in the mean time, what's the easiest way of making this plot? I can think of various ways to do it but they all seem cumbersome. Am I missing something?