'How can I order these bars using ggplot? Why is the forcat method not working?
I'm trying to reorder the bars on my bargraph so they are biggest to smallest, ordered by log(Max_N) rather than alphabetically. I've tried using forcats but it brings up an error message. This is my code so far, whats going wrong? I'm trying to teach myself how to use ggplot, so please do point out any errors I've made, because I am self-taught!
library("ggplot2")
library (forcats)
test<-ggplot(all, aes(x=all$Species, y=log(all$Max_N+1))) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
coord_flip()
test <- test + labs(title = "",
subtitle = "",
caption = "",
y = "Log(MaxN)", x = "Species",
tag = "")
test %>%
mutate(name = fct_reorder(Species, log(Max_N+1)) %>%
a) Here's the reproducible example requested (I hope that's what you mean?)
structure(list(Site = c("Mylor", "Mylor", "Mylor", "Mylor", "Mylor",
"Mylor", "Mylor", "Mylor", "Mylor", "Mylor"), Trial = c(1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L), Location = c("centre", "edge",
"edge", "edge", "edge", "edge", "edge", "centre", "centre", "centre"
), Bait = c("whitefish", "whitefish", "whitefish", "whitefish",
"whitefish", "whitefish", "whitefish", "whitefish", "whitefish",
"whitefish"), ECP = c("yes", "yes", "yes", "yes", "yes", "yes",
"yes", "no", "no", "no"), SSP = c("no", "no", "no", "no", "no",
"no", "no", "no", "no", "no"), KP = c("no", "no", "no", "no",
"no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no"), OSP = c("no", "no", "no",
"no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no"), Density =
c("dense_seagrass",
"dense_seagrass", "dense_seagrass", "dense_seagrass",
"dense_seagrass",
"dense_seagrass", "dense_seagrass", "dense_seagrass",
"dense_seagrass",
"dense_seagrass"), Viz = c(1.75, 1.75, 1.75, 1.75, 1.75, 1.75,
1.75, 4.5, 4.5, 4.5), Species = c("sea_sprat", "corkwing_wrasse",
"pollack", "sand_smelt", "unknown_wrasse", "two_spotted_goby",
"unknown_wrasse", "mackerel", "sand_smelt", "mullet"), AJ = c("juv",
"juv", "juv", "adu", "adu", "adu", "adu", "adu", "adu", "adu"
), FG = c("pelagic_neritic", "reef_associated", "pelagic_neritic",
"pelagic_neritic", "reef_associated", "reef_associated",
"reef_associated",
"pelagic_neritic", "pelagic_neritic", "pelagic_neritic"), Max_N =
c(1L,
1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 26L, 1L)), row.names = c(NA, 10L), class
= "data.frame")
b) so I changed the Species to name as suggested, and it has order some but not others? Changed code to this.
test<-ggplot(all2, aes(x=name, y=log(Max_N+1))) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
coord_flip()
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