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Decreasing the space between boxes in a simple box plot

Moon — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 01:22:16 GMT

Hi everyone,

I wonder if there is a way to decrease the space between boxes in a box plot. I do not have groups, so I cannot use graph spacing. And when I try to change it manually by X-axis setting, the white space for the graph increases, which is not good. would you please advise how to proceed? Thanks

Re: Decreasing the space between boxes in a simple box plot

mikedriscoll — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:35:18 GMT

You should be able to grab the right hand part of that plot with the mouse and drag it left to make the plot window narrower. It will condense the plot. I don't know that you can control the amount of white space vs boxplot specifically.

Re: Decreasing the space between boxes in a simple box plot

jthi — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:09:46 GMT

Those x-axis values you have are really "numbers" in the x-axis starting from 0

So you have some options which you can play around with:

Modify width proportion
Change graph size
Change X-axis ends

Combine these different methods together to hopefully get what you want.

Re: Decreasing the space between boxes in a simple box plot

Moon — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:57:30 GMT

Thanks Jarmo,

In the x axis I have two group 1(with injury) and 2( without injury) these two

Change graph size
Change X-axis ends works better.