ggplot2 stacked area-bar plot in R

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Is there a way to combine stacked bar plot and stacked area plot in ggplot2 (or in any other graphics package in R)? I'd like to create a stacked bar plot with some space between the columns. The groups of the bars should than be connected by the areas. In other words, instead of edges of an area plot, there should be bars with percentage labels for the groups.

What I've tried is:

ggplot(subdata, aes(x=variable, y=value, group=Name, fill=Name)) +
geom_area (positon="fill") +
geom_bar(stat="identity", colour="black")

The problem is that I'd like the filled areas to connect the boundaries of the bars rather than their midlines. Is there a way to accomplish this?

I have a hard time understanding what you are looking for. I know it's kinda out of the ordinary, but this guy made a really good illustration demostating what he was looking for which in turn lead to some good answers. — Eric Fail
– Eric Fail, Commented May 16, 2012 at 19:28

AnjaM · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-17 20:06:51Z

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I asked this question on the ggplot2 mailing list after not getting any answers here, and Winston Chang came up with a solution: Thread within ggplot2 google group

answered May 17, 2012 at 20:06

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Eric Fail Over a year ago

You should consider recognizing this as an complete answer and close this thread.

Roman Luštrik Over a year ago

Could you reproduce the answer here?

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