Vertical lines between points with ggplot2

Question

I am new to ggplot2 and cannot figure out how to draw vertical dotted grey lines between

the points/dots along the x-axis. Here\'s my example code:

Answer 1

You should be using geom_vline() to do this.

        d1 <- runif(10,10,15)
        d2 <- runif(10,25,30)
        d3 <- rep(1:10,2)
        df <- data.frame(x = d3, y = c(d1,d2))
       ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=y)) + geom_point() + 
geom_vline(xintercept = df$x, linetype= 3, colour = "#919191")

Answer 2

If your actual data is structured like the one used for your example, just add geom_line(aes(group = d3)) to the plot.

ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=y)) +  
 geom_point() + geom_line(aes(group = d3))

Answer 3

There's definitely better ways than this but:

d1 <- runif(10,10,15)
d2 <- runif(10,25,30)
d3 <- rep(1:10,2)
df <- data.frame(x = d3, y = c(d1,d2))
df$place <- rep(c("min", "max") , each=10)

df_wide <- reshape(df, direction = "wide", v.names="y", timevar="place", idvar="x") 

ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=y)) +
    geom_segment(aes(x=x, xend=x, y=y.min, yend=y.max), 
        size=1, data=df_wide, colour="grey70", linetype="dotted") +
    geom_point() 

Though I'm not sure what you mean by "along the x axis", maybe you want it to extend top to bottom not just between the points.