Removing boxes with mean values in ggwithinstats

[ramashka328]

Hey,

how can I remove all or several of the boxes with mean values from ggwithinstats plot? Or what is the easiest way of making boxes with mean values to not overlap the boxplots?

[ludist]

The boxes with mean values, described more generally as centrality labels, can be manipulated with the "centrality.label.args" parameter which passes the parameters to the underlying ggplot2 functions responsible for creating visuals.

In the ggwithinstats R file, the following parameter example is given:
centrality.label.args = list(size = 3, nudge_x = 0.4, segment.linetype = 4)

By changing the nudge_x value, you should be able to prevent overlapping.

I'm sure there's a more elegant way to do this, but if you want to quickly remove any element that's based on a parameter that passes info down to a ggplot2 function, you can make it invisible with:
alpha = 0.0,

You can learn more about how to manipulate the appearance of objects by looking at the ggplot2 documentation.

[ludist]

It turns out the more elegant solution is to use ggplot2's "element_blank" function, nicely explained here:
https://rpubs.com/Mentors_Ubiqum/ggplot_remove_elements