ggplot2: how to reduce space between narrow width bars, after coord_flip, and panel border

Question

When you have flipped coordinates, how do you reduce the space between bars that are narrow and the panel border? Using the data frame df and the ggplot comman

Answer 1

I think I have found a solution. You can remove width from geom_bar and introduce theme(aspect.ratio = .2), then you can play with the ratio to find the desired width. And unlike coord_equal or coord_fixed is compatible with coord_flip.

ggplot(df, aes(x = x, y = y)) + 
  geom_bar(stat = "identity") + 
  theme_tufte() + theme(aspect.ratio = .2) +
  coord_flip() +
  labs(x = "", y = "")