ezPlot overlapping error bar and data - r

Question

I am using ezPlot from the ez package in R to plot results of a mixed within and between-ss design. The data point from the two groups I have overlap so that I would like to jitter both the data point and associated error bar.
data<-structure(list(Sub = structure(c(2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L,
4L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = c("WW", "XX", "YY",
"ZZ"), class = "factor"), DepVar = c(0.67, 0.35, 0.09, 0.2, 0.19,
0.13, 0.45, 0.23, 0.08, 0.32, 0.17, 0.18, 0.67, 0.36, 0.55, 0.4,
0.37, 0.05, 0.26, 0.11, 0.08, 0.46, 0.29, 0.18, 0.16, 0, 0.38,
0.22, 0.08, 0.1, 0.54, 0.17, 0.07, 0.38, 0.75, 0.87, 0.27, 0.57,
0.31, 0.28, 0.07, 0.12, 0.75, 0.33, 0.23, 0.33, 0.26, 0.18),
Group = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L,
2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("A", "B"), class = "factor"),
Con = structure(c(1L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 1L,
2L, 3L, 1L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 1L,
3L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 3L, 3L, 3L,
4L, 5L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 3L), .Label = c("C", "D", "E",
"F", "G"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("Sub", "DepVar",
"Group", "Con"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -48L))
ezPlot( data,
dv = .(DepVar),
wid = .(Sub), # subject
within = .(Con),
between=.(Group),
split=.(Group),
do_bars=TRUE,
type = 2,
x = .(Con))
A non elegant trick is so set scale-color manual white so that the underlying data points disappear and then using geom-point position dodge(0.4))
ezPlot( data,
dv = .(DepVar),
wid = .(Sub), # subject
within = .(Con),
between=.(Group),
split=.(Group),
do_bars=TRUE,
type = 2,
x = .(Con))+
scale_color_manual(values=c("white", "white"))+
geom_point(aes(fill=Group), color="black", pch= 21, size= 3, position=position_dodge(0.4))+
geom_line(aes(group = Group), lty = 3, lwd = 1.3, color='black')
however, I would like to have the error bar plotted and I don't know how to achieve this or if other workarounds are possible. I would like to stick to ezplot. Thanks!

Answer 1

One way is to use set print_code = TRUE, to produce data to be plotted, as well as the ggplot code:
library(ggplot2)
stats <- ezPlot( data,
dv = .(DepVar),
wid = .(Sub), # subject
within = .(Con),
between=.(Group),
split=.(Group),
do_bars=TRUE,
type = 2,
x = .(Con),
print_code = TRUE)
Then, manually modify the code to add position = position_dodge(0.4) to each geom, then run the ggplot code.
A more efficient way to do the same thing would be to capture.output the code as a character vector, use gsub to add position = position_dodge(0.4), then eval(parse(text = ...)) the modified code:
gg_code <- capture.output(stats <- ezPlot( data,
dv = .(DepVar),
wid = .(Sub), # subject
within = .(Con),
between=.(Group),
split=.(Group),
do_bars=TRUE,
type = 2,
x = .(Con),
print_code = TRUE))
gg_code <- gsub("alpha", "position = position_dodge(0.4), alpha", gg_code)
eval(parse(text = paste(gg_code, collapse = "")))
Output: