I have some difficulties with the labels for this chart. Specifically, the labels do not fit in their corresponding bar. Also, it looks like the labels are not in a right place. In other words, the percentage for non-Hispanic Whites should appear in the orange boxes.
Thanks,
MRR
IDD_line_race <-
ggplot(race_2010, aes(x =Year_ , y =per_X_ , fill=race_new2), colour="black",
stat="identity", width=0.9, position = position_dodge()) +
geom_col() +
geom_text(aes(y = per_X_, label = paste0(format(per_X_),"%")), colour = "white")+
scale_fill_manual(values=c("#F76900","#000E54")) +
labs(
x = "Year",
y = "Population 65+ (%)",
caption = (""),
face = "bold"
) +
theme_classic()+
coord_flip()
IDD_line_race
The issue is that geom_col
by default uses position = "stack"
while geom_text
uses position="identity"
. To put your labels at the correct positions you have to use position = "stack"
or the more verbose position = position_stack()
in geom_text
too. Additionally I right aligned the labels using hjust=1
and removed the clutter from the ggplot()
call.
Using some fake example data:;
library(ggplot2)
set.seed(123)
race_2010 <- data.frame(
Year_ = rep(2010:2019, 2),
race_new2 = rep(c("non-Hispanic Black", "non-Hispanic White"), each = 10),
per_X_ = round(c(runif(10, 1, 2), runif(10, 9, 12)), 1)
)
ggplot(race_2010, aes(x =Year_ , y =per_X_ , fill=race_new2)) +
geom_col() +
geom_text(aes(y = per_X_, label = paste0(format(per_X_),"%")), colour = "white", position = position_stack(), hjust = 1) +
scale_fill_manual(values=c("#F76900","#000E54")) +
labs(
x = "Year",
y = "Population 65+ (%)",
caption = (""),
face = "bold"
) +
theme_classic()+
coord_flip()