How to get a barplot with several variables side by side grouped by a factor

Question

I have a dataset which looks like this one below. I am trying to make a barplot with the grouping variable gender, with all the variables side by side on the x axis (grouped

Answer 1

You can plot the means without resorting to external calculations and additional tables using stat_summary(...). In fact, stat_summary(...) was designed for exactly what you are doing.

library(ggplot2)
library(reshape2)            # for melt(...)
gg <- melt(df,id="gender")   # df is your original table
ggplot(gg, aes(x=variable, y=value, fill=factor(gender))) + 
  stat_summary(fun.y=mean, geom="bar",position=position_dodge(1)) + 
  scale_color_discrete("Gender")
  stat_summary(fun.ymin=min,fun.ymax=max,geom="errorbar",
               color="grey80",position=position_dodge(1), width=.2)

To add "error bars" you cna also use stat_summary(...) (here, I'm using the min and max value rather than sd because you have so little data).

ggplot(gg, aes(x=variable, y=value, fill=factor(gender))) + 
  stat_summary(fun.y=mean, geom="bar",position=position_dodge(1)) + 
  stat_summary(fun.ymin=min,fun.ymax=max,geom="errorbar",
               color="grey40",position=position_dodge(1), width=.2) +
  scale_fill_discrete("Gender")