ggplot side by side geom_bar()
You will need to melt
your data first over value
. It will create another variable called value
by default, so you will need to renames it (I called it percent
). Then, plot the new data set using fill
in order to separate the data into groups, and position = "dodge"
in order put the bars side by side (instead of on top of each other)
library(reshape2)
library(ggplot2)
dfp1 <- melt(dfp1)
names(dfp1)[3] <- "percent"
ggplot(dfp1, aes(x = value, y= percent, fill = variable), xlab="Age Group") +
geom_bar(stat="identity", width=.5, position = "dodge")
Similar to David's answer, here is a tidyverse option using tidyr::pivot_longer
to reshape the data before plotting:
library(tidyverse)
dfp1 %>%
pivot_longer(-value, names_to = "variable", values_to = "percent") %>%
ggplot(aes(x = value, y = percent, fill = variable), xlab="Age Group") +
geom_bar(stat = "identity", position = "dodge", width = 0.5)