Add jitter to ggpaired

Question

The ggpubr package provides the function ggpaired to plot paired data. It does not have an option add='jitter' as ggboxplot does.

Is it possible to achieve a similar effect by different means?

Example from the documentation:

require(ggplot)
require(ggpubr)
before <-c(200.1, 190.9, 192.7, 213, 241.4, 196.9, 172.2, 185.5, 205.2, 193.7)
after <-c(392.9, 393.2, 345.1, 393, 434, 427.9, 422, 383.9, 392.3, 352.2)
d <- data.frame(before = before, after = after)
ggpaired(d, cond1 = "before", cond2 = "after", add="jitter")


data("ToothGrowth")
df <- ToothGrowth
ggboxplot(df, x = "dose", y = "len", width = 0.8, add="jitter")

Perhaps the [function could be edited](https://github.com/kassambara/ggpubr/blob/master/R/ggpaired.R#L124) to provide for `position = "jitter"`. Or, consider adding a feature request to the GitHub repo. — Roman Luštrik, Dec 31 '17 at 14:09
Looks like request #407 was opened 4/26/21. Thank you @a-kassambara for considering adding this functionality, and kudos on a great tool. — curious lab rat, Feb 25 '22 at 18:00

Marco Sandri · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-31T16:21:21.240

Here are some ideas for a plot similar to the one generated by ggpaired but with jittered points.

library(ggplot2)
before <- c(200.1, 190.9, 192.7, 213, 241.4, 196.9, 172.2, 185.5, 205.2, 193.7)
after <- c(392.9, 393.2, 345.1, 393, 434, 427.9, 422, 383.9, 392.3, 352.2)
n <- length(before)
d <- data.frame(y = c(before, after), 
                x = rep(c(1,2), each=n),
                id = factor(rep(1:n,2)))

set.seed(321)    
d$xj <- jitter(d$x, amount=.03)
ggplot(data=d, aes(y=y)) +
  geom_boxplot(aes(x=x, group=x), width=0.2, outlier.shape = NA) +
  geom_point(aes(x=xj)) +
  geom_line(aes(x=xj, group=id)) +
  xlab("Condition") + ylab("Value") +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks=c(1,2), labels=c("Before", "After"), limits=c(0.5, 2.5)) +
  theme_bw()

Add jitter to ggpaired

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