No plot.type in ggwithinstats

[AntoineSoetewey]

Thanks again for this amazing package!

I see that there is a possibility to specify the plot.type in ggbetweenstats, but not in ggwithinstats. Any reason for this?

Do you think it would be possible to add it?

Thanks in advance for your time.

Regards, Antoine

[IndrajeetPatil]

The reason is that I can't seem to make up my mind about whether ggwithinstats() should get plot.type argument, or whether this argument should be retired for ggbetweenstats().

I am not happy with having that argument because it complicates the implementation, and I also don't see the value of making box plots with {ggstatsplot} when they are so easy to make outside it. But, on the other hand, a number of users already seem to be using this argument, so difficult to make such a drastic breaking change this late.

So I might just end up adding plot.type argument ggwithinstats() 🤷

Thanks for forcing me to clarify my thoughts on this 😅

[AntoineSoetewey]

Thanks for your answer.

Food for thoughts: Boxplots are quite "standard" in introductory statistic classes, but not violin plots. So students generally understand boxplots, but struggle to understand violin plots (and struggle even more to understand the combination of boxplots and violin plots).

In the same sense of https://github.com/IndrajeetPatil/ggstatsplot/issues/669 to increase readability and conciseness, I use plot.type = "box" much more often than plot.type = "violin" or plot.type = "boxviolin".

I understand that boxplots are easy to make outside of {ggstatsplot}, but I really like the fact that with {ggstatsplot} it is easy to display the plot together with some statistical results (which is not so easy with other packages or in base R).

Moreover, the fact that I can run ggbetweenstats() and ggwithinstats() on multiple variables at once make the package very useful for my projects. See more information if you wish in this article.

Feel free to get in touch if you believe I can help, I'd be happy to contribute!

Regards, Antoine