Avoiding dotplots squished to bottom of plot

[Troy S]

Thanks for a great product.  I am really enjoying using the new 0.9 features.

In dotplots, how do I avoid the plots squished to the bottom of the plots?  I have tried playing with limits in scale_y_continuous to no avail.

d<-data.frame(ppt=rep(c('a','b'),each=6),
val=c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,3,3))
print(ggplot(d, aes(x=val))
+geom_dotplot()
+facet_wrap(~ppt)
+scale_y_continuous(limits=c(0,.1)))

In other plots, it appears as if 60 dots are in fact 1. 

[Ben Bond-Lamberty]

> In dotplots, how do I avoid the plots squished to the bottom of the plots?

This is what geom_dotplot is designed to do: stack dots. By increasing
its default "dotsize", you can make the dots take up more of the
vertical plot space, if

Were you thinking of

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[Ben Bond-Lamberty]

(...sorry, hit send too soon.)

Were you wanting some different behavior? Then you'll need to use another geom.

Regards,
Ben

[Winston Chang]

As Ben noted, one way is to use 'dotsize', which changes the diameter of the dots... You can also use 'stackratio', which changes the vertical spacing between the dots:

d<-data.frame(ppt=rep(c('a','b'),each=6),

  val=c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,3,3))

ggplot(d, aes(x=val)) +

  geom_dotplot(stackratio=2) +

  facet_wrap(~ppt)

Unfortunately, for geom_dotplot, the numbers on the y axis are pretty much meaningless and I don't think it's possible to change this. If you want the dots to line up with actual count values, you have to tweak the y range by hand.

-Winston

[Troy S]

I will play with these tomorrow but it sounds like I have what I need.  Many thanks.

Troy