rggplot2ridgeline-plotggridges

Lines overlapping in R with ggridges


I use ggridges in R to visualize my data. But a lot of the lines are overlapping and are hard to read.

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My code is:

ggplot(task1, aes(x = ibu, y = style, fill = style)) +
  geom_density_ridges(alpha=1) +
  theme_ridges() + 
  theme(legend.position = "none")

What should I change to make this visualization more readable?


Solution

  • You can use the scale parameter to adjust the overall height scaling. Just set it to a number that produces results you like.

    library(ggplot2)
    library(ggridges)
    #> 
    #> Attaching package: 'ggridges'
    #> The following object is masked from 'package:ggplot2':
    #> 
    #>     scale_discrete_manual
    
    ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Length, y = Species, fill = Species)) +
      geom_density_ridges()
    #> Picking joint bandwidth of 0.181
    

    ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Length, y = Species, fill = Species)) +
      geom_density_ridges(scale = 0.5)
    #> Picking joint bandwidth of 0.181
    

    Created on 2019-11-03 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)