I'm trying to explicitly set the order of the fill variables in a stacked bar chart.
To do so I'm using the scale_y_discrete
variable and setting the limits to a predetermined list I'm making, in the case of the example names
.
This works perfect when ordering the x axis
but when I take the same approach for the y
it's not having any effect and is causing an issues with the axis labels.
The below examples are the chart with and without the attempted ordering.
Without:
library(ggplot2)
library(reshape2)
df_dtype <- data.frame(Name = c("Jim","Bob","Sue","Sally"),
Pre = c(150, 200, 325, 120),
Post = c(70,120,200,100) )
mdtype <- melt(df_dtype)
names = c("Jim","Bob","Sue","Sally")
p <- ggplot(mdtype, aes(x=variable, y=value, fill=Name)) +
geom_bar(position="stack", stat="identity") +
ylab("Frequency") + xlab("") + ggtitle("Report Type") +
theme(axis.ticks.x = element_blank(),axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, vjust = 1, hjust=1))
p # + scale_y_discrete(limits = names)
With:
library(ggplot2)
library(reshape2)
df_dtype <- data.frame(Name = c("Jim","Bob","Sue","Sally"),
Pre = c(150, 200, 325, 120),
Post = c(70,120,200,100) )
mdtype <- melt(df_dtype)
names = c("Jim","Bob","Sue","Sally")
p <- ggplot(mdtype, aes(x=variable, y=value, fill=Name)) +
geom_bar(position="stack", stat="identity") +
ylab("Frequency") + xlab("") + ggtitle("Report Type") +
theme(axis.ticks.x = element_blank(),axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, vjust = 1, hjust=1))
p # + scale_y_discrete(limits = names)
I'm trying to set it so the order of the piecs in the stack are arranged in the order of this list names = c("Jim","Bob","Sue","Sally")
Make the fill variable a factor
with the correct variable ordering as defined by names
ggplot(mdtype, aes(variable, value, fill = factor(Name, names))) +
geom_col(position = "stack") +
labs(x = NULL, y = "Frequency", title = "Report Type", fill = "Name") +
theme(axis.ticks.x = element_blank(),
axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, vjust = 1, hjust = 1))