Is there a way in ggplot to create unequal breaks so that the distance between observation is not ho-CodePudding

I was wondering how the y axis of a ggplot can be altered in a way that the distance between factors increases or deacreases hetergenous.

x<-c(1:5)
y<-c("Randall","Donavan","Molly","Timothy","Barbara")


plot <- ggplot(df, aes(x = x, y = y))   
  geom_point()
plot

How can one produce a plot with for example "Randall" and "Donavan" close together and "Timothy" and "Barbara" close togehter but a with a big gab between them.

I do not just want to move the labels but alter the differences between the factors.

CodePudding user response：

You should set different values to the breaks of different labels in your scale_y_continuous command in ggplot. You can use the following code as an example:

library(tidyverse)
df <- data.frame(
x = c(1:5),
y = c("Randall","Donavan","Molly","Timothy","Barbara"),
dist = c(1, 2, 4, 8, 9))


plot <- ggplot(df, aes(x = x, y = dist))   
  geom_point()  
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = df$dist, labels = df$y)
plot

Output:

As you can see, the labels are on a different scale. Donavan and Randall close, Barbara and Timothy close and big gap between each others.