Changing the order of bars in a bar-plot - ggplot2 - R

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I am working with the 'mtcars' dataset and have made this bar-plot with ggplot2:

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I would want to arrange the bars in ascending order of count. i.e this needs to be the order of the bars: (6,8,3,1,2,4).

Is there a way to modify it?

May 28, 2018 in Data Analytics by DataKing99
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You can use the scale_x_discrete() function with the parameter 'limits' to reorder the bars:

ggplot(data = mtcars,aes(x=factor(carb)))+geom_bar()+scale_x_discrete(limits=c(6,8,3,1,2,4))

The above command will give you the desired result:

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answered May 28, 2018 by Bharani
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