Indeed, it helped - thank you, Bill. And now - how could I now avoid the reversal on my axis with att_levels? Currently it starts with the last one being the first one on the graph and ends with the first one...
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:04 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote: > 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-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@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("") > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Dimitri Liakhovitski > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Dimitri Liakhovitski [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
