# How to adjust the position of each bar in Geom.bar(GadFly)
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-position-of-each-bar-in-geom-bar-gadfly/12536
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [July 20, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-position-of-each-bar-in-geom-bar-gadfly/12536 "2018-07-20T13:40:20Z")
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### Author:  [@jayce\_ram](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jayce_ram)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-position-of-each-bar-in-geom-bar-gadfly/12536/1 "2018-07-20T13:40:20Z")
For design matter, I would like that axe-x of the plot bellow showed only 2018 and 2019 (and not 2017.5 etc).
I have converted the column related to the year in string and I have succeed to get my goal but I was wondering if there is another way to get the same result. The dataframes I really will have to deal representing variables of a LP problem and it will not be practical at all spend time to convert all the columns in string. Thanks in advance.
```julia
using DataFrames,Gadfly
df = DataFrame(
product = ["prodA","prodB","prodC","prodA","prodB","prodC"],
year = [2018,2018,2018,2019,2019,2019],
prod = [120,150,170,160,100,130],
)
sort!(df,cols=[:year])
plot(df, x="year", y="prod",color="product", Geom.bar)
```
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### Author:  [@Mattriks](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mattriks)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-position-of-each-bar-in-geom-bar-gadfly/12536/2 "2018-07-20T23:21:10Z")
Does this work for you?:
```julia
p = plot(df, x=:year, y=:prod, color=:product, Geom.bar, Scale.x_discrete)
```
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### Author:  [@jayce\_ram](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jayce_ram)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-adjust-the-position-of-each-bar-in-geom-bar-gadfly/12536/3 "2018-07-23T12:42:53Z")
Thanks!It worked fine.