[R] Stacked barchart color

[hadley wickham]

Hi Owen,

The bars should be stacked in the order specified by the factor.  Try
using factor(..., levels=...) to explicitly order them the way you
want.  If that doesn't work, please provide a small replicable example
and I'll look into it.

Hadley

On 6/18/07, owenman <solberg at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Hadley,
> Great, I am starting to get it.  It's working for me, but there is one more
> thing I am having trouble with.  The ordering of the stacked bars seems to
> be dictated by the name of the color, I guess because of the fill=color
> argument in aes().  In other words, if I set up my colors like this:
> y$color = c("gray1","gray35","gray45","gray65")  the bars get stacked in the
> opposite order than if I set up the colors like this:  y$color =
> c("gray65","gray45","gray35","gray1").  How can I control the order of the
> bars independent of the name of the colors?   Thanks so much in advance!
> Really neat package you've made.
>
> FYI, my plot command now looks like this:
>
> p = ggplot(y, aes(x=locus, y=Freq, fill=color))
> p = p + geom_bar(position="fill")
> p = p + scale_fill_identity(labels=levels(y$Fnd), grob="tile", name="Fnd
> Results")
> p = p + coord_flip()
>
> And the data table is similar as before:
>
> > y
>       Fnd locus        Freq  color
> 1  signeg  DPB1 0.013071895  gray1
> 2     neg  DPB1 0.581699346 gray35
> 3     pos  DPB1 0.379084967 gray45
> 4  sigpos  DPB1 0.026143791 gray65
> 5  signeg  DPA1 0.068181818  gray1
> 6     neg  DPA1 0.659090909 gray35
> 7     pos  DPA1 0.250000000 gray45
> 8  sigpos  DPA1 0.022727273 gray65
>
>
>
> hadley wrote:
> >
> > Hi Owen,
> >
> > The identity scale won't create a legend, unless you tell it what
> > labels it should use - there's an example at
> > http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/scale_identity.html.  Otherwise, if you have
> > a continuous scale and you want something that works in black and
> > white, p + scale_fill_gradient(low="white", high="black") might be
> > easier.
> >
> > Hadley
> >
> >
> >>
> >> > y$color = factor(y$Fnd)
> >> > y$color = c("black","darkgray","lightgray","white")
> >> > y
> >>       Fnd locus        Freq color
> >> 1  signeg     A 0.087248322     black
> >> 2     neg     A 0.711409396  darkgray
> >> 3     pos     A 0.201342282 lightgray
> >> 4  sigpos     A 0.000000000     white
> >> 5  signeg     C 0.320754717     black
> >> 6     neg     C 0.603773585  darkgray
> >> 7     pos     C 0.075471698 lightgray
> >> 8  sigpos     C 0.000000000     white
> >> 9  signeg     B 0.157534247     black
> >> 10    neg     B 0.732876712  darkgray
> >> 11    pos     B 0.109589041 lightgray
> >> 12 sigpos     B 0.000000000     white
> >>
> >> > p = ggplot(y, aes(x=locus, y=Freq, fill=color)) +
> >> > geom_bar(position="fill") + scale_fill_identity()
> >> > p
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> hadley wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Hi Dieter,
> >> >
> >> > You can do this with ggplot2 (http://had.co.nz/ggplot2) as follows:
> >> >
> >> > library(ggplot2)
> >> >
> >> > barley1 <- subset(barley, site=="Grand Rapids" & variety %in%
> >> > c("Velvet","Peatland"))
> >> > barley1[] <- lapply(barley1, "[", drop=TRUE)
> >> >
> >> > qplot(variety, yield, data=barley1, geom="bar", stat="identity",
> >> > fill=factor(year))
> >> >
> >> > barley1$fill <- c("red","green","blue","gray")
> >> > qplot(variety, yield, data=barley1, geom="bar", stat="identity",
> >> > fill=fill) + scale_fill_identity()
> >> >
> >> > See http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/scale_identity.html and
> >> > http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/position_stack.html for more details.
> >> >
> >> > Hadley
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
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