Bar on the side go out of bound when increase bar width

Question

I copy the code from Guide to draw charts (basic, pie, bar) from data and customize (just change the data value).

The bar width is too thin so the percentage overlap on each other. So, I increase the bar width Then 2 bar on the side of chart go outside (almost half)

How to fix that ?

Here is full source code that cause the problem (picture 2)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric, arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\title{draw_chart}
\author{Thien Thai}
\date{August 2017}

\begin{document}

\pgfplotstableread[row sep=\\,col sep=&]{
    interval & carT & carD & carR \\
    0--2     & 51.92  & 50.84  &  51.7 \\
    2--5     & 51 & 50.53  & 50  \\
    5--10    & 51.53 & 51.51 & 52.46 \\
    }\mydata

\begin{tikzpicture}
    \begin{axis}[
            ybar,
            bar width=0.7cm,
            width=\textwidth,
            height=.5\textwidth,
            legend style={at={(0.5,1)},
                anchor=north,legend columns=-1},
            symbolic x coords={0--2,2--5,5--10},
            xtick=data,
            nodes near coords,
            nodes near coords align={vertical},
            ymin=49.5,ymax=53,
            ylabel={},
        ]
        \addplot table[x=interval,y=carT]{\mydata};
        \addplot table[x=interval,y=carD]{\mydata};
        \addplot table[x=interval,y=carR]{\mydata};
        \legend{Trips, Distance, Energy}
    \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Look for enlarge x limits. Try e.g. enlarge x limits={abs=0.5}. — Torbjørn T., Aug 30 '17 at 14:48
Just add what I wrote there to the axis options, e.g. right after ylabel={}, — Torbjørn T., Aug 30 '17 at 16:13
I would suggest bar width=.8cm and enlarge x limits={abs=2*\pgfplotbarwidth}. Additional remark: set compat for pgfplots: \usepackage{pgfplots} directly followed by \pgfplotsset{compat=1.15} (1.15 is the current version) or \pgfplotsset{compat=newest}. — esdd, Aug 30 '17 at 16:27

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '17 at 14:22

I would suggest bar width=.8cm and enlarge x limits={abs=2*\pgfplotbarwidth}.

Additional remark: set compat for pgfplots: \usepackage{pgfplots} directly followed by \pgfplotsset{compat=1.15} (1.15 is the current version) or \pgfplotsset{compat=newest}.

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{pgfplots}% loads also tikz
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.15}%<- added

\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric, arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}

\title{draw_chart}
\author{Thien Thai}
\date{August 2017}

\begin{document}
\pgfplotstableread[row sep=\\,col sep=&]{
    interval & carT & carD & carR \\
    0--2     & 51.92  & 50.84  &  51.7 \\
    2--5     & 51 & 50.53  & 50  \\
    5--10    & 51.53 & 51.51 & 52.46 \\
    }\mydata

\begin{tikzpicture}
    \begin{axis}[
            ybar,
            bar width=0.8cm,%<- changed
            width=\textwidth,
            height=.5\textwidth,
            legend style={at={(0.5,1)},
                anchor=north,legend columns=-1},
            symbolic x coords={0--2,2--5,5--10},
            xtick=data,
            nodes near coords,
            nodes near coords align={vertical},
            ymin=49.5,ymax=53,
            ylabel={},
            enlarge x limits={abs=2*\pgfplotbarwidth}
        ]
        \addplot table[x=interval,y=carT]{\mydata};
        \addplot table[x=interval,y=carD]{\mydata};
        \addplot table[x=interval,y=carR]{\mydata};
        \legend{Trips, Distance, Energy}
    \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Maybe you want to add

nodes near coords style={/pgf/number format/.cd,fixed,fixed zerofill,precision=2},

to the axis options to get

Or with precision=1:

Bar on the side go out of bound when increase bar width

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