[R] ggplot2 question: keeping the order as in the input data

[William Dunlap]

Try making att_levels (or att.levels, whatever you really call it)
into a factor with the levels in the order you like.  E.g.,
    aes(x = factor(att_levels, levels=unique(att_levels)), y = WTP)
instead of
    aes(x = att_levels, y = WTP) 

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf
> Of Dimitri Liakhovitski
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 7:35 AM
> To: r-help
> Subject: [R] ggplot2 question: keeping the order as in the input data
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I am using ggplot2 (see the code below) to plot the data in 'myplotdata'.
> The first column of 'myplotdata' is called "att.levels" and contains
> strings; the second column is called "WTP" and contains numeric values.
> Notice - I use 'coord.flip()'
> 
> The command aes(x=att_levels, y=WTP), if I understand correctly, sorts
> things alphabetically based on the column 'att_levels'.
> Question 1: How can I reverse the order for x in the plot (also
> alphabetically but in the opposite direction)?
> Question 2: How can I just have exactly the same order as in the object
> 'myplotdata'?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> ggplot(myplotdata, aes(x=att_levels, y=WTP)) +
>                 geom_bar(stat="identity",fill="dark orange",colour="black",
> alpha = 1,position = "identity") +
> 
> geom_text(aes(label=WTP),colour="black",size=4,hjust=1.1,position='dodge') +
>                 coord_flip() +
>                 xlab("") +
>                 ylab("")
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Dimitri Liakhovitski
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