Horizontal Barplot in ggplot2
I was working on doing a horizontal dot plot (?) in ggplot2
, and it got me thinking about trying to create a horizontal barplot. However, I am finding some limitations in being able to do this.
Here is my data:
df <- data.frame(Seller=c("Ad","Rt","Ra","Mo","Ao","Do"),
Avg_Cost=c(5.30,3.72,2.91,2.64,1.17,1.10), Num=c(6:1))
df
str(df)
Initially, I generated a dot plot using the following code:
require(ggplot2)
ggplot(df, aes(x=Avg_Cost, y=reorder(Seller,Num))) +
geom_point(colour="black",fill="lightgreen") +
opts(title="Avg Cost") +
ylab("Region") + xlab("") + ylab("") + xlim(c(0,7)) +
opts(plot.title = theme_text(face = "bold", size=15)) +
opts(axis.text.y = theme_text(family = "sans", face = "bold", size = 12)) +
opts(axis.text.x = theme_text(family = "sans", face = "bold", size = 12))
However, I am now trying to create a horizontal barplot and finding that I am unable to do so. I've tried coord_flip()
and that was not helpful either.
ggplot(df, aes(x=Avg_Cost, y=reorder(Seller,Num))) +
geom_bar(colour="black",fill="lightgreen") +
opts(title="Avg Cost") +
ylab("Region") + xlab("") + ylab("") + xlim(c(0,7)) +
opts(plot.title = theme_text(face = "bold", size=15)) +
opts(axis.text.y = theme_text(family = "sans", face = "bold", size = 12)) +
opts(axis.text.x = theme_text(family = "sans", face = "bold", size = 12))
Can anyone provide some assistance on how to generate a horizontal barplot in ggplot2
?
ggplot(df, aes(x=reorder(Seller, Num), y=Avg_Cost)) +
geom_bar(stat='identity') +
coord_flip()
Without stat='identity'
ggplot wants to aggregate your data into counts.
As off ggplot2
version 3.3.0 (March 2020) the direction is deducted from the aesthetic mapping. Hence we can simplify @Justin's and @ungatoverde code to
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(df,
aes(x = Avg_Cost,
y = reorder(Seller, Num)
)
) +
geom_col()
Reference: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2020/03/ggplot2-3-3-0/#bi-directional-geoms-and-stats
ggplot(df, aes(x=reorder(Seller, Num), y=Avg_Cost)) +
geom_col()
This might be an alternative