It looks like period is a factor, so you can reorder the factor levels however you wish and then plot them the same way. I believe recode() in library(car) is a popular function for doing this, but I haven't used it myself.
Michael On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:34 AM, vd3000 <vd3...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I am currently trying to learn this example. > http://learnr.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/ggplot2-barplots/ > > > I created the stack bar easily. > > If I would like to rank the stack bar from the highest on the right, > shortest on the left and eventually > I could show the data "1991-00" on the left and "1823-30" on the right, how > could I do that? > > Apart from this, I find something quite weird, > If I import a data frame with column names containing \n, for example, > pretty\nwoman, lemon\ntree, etc > for example: f3=as.data.frame(read.table("f3.csv", sep=",", row.names=1, > header=TRUE, check.names=FALSE)) > even I put check.names=FALSE, the column name will be changed to \\n, ie, > pretty\\nwoman, lemon\\ntree. > How could I get rid of extra "\" sign ??? > > > > Hope some genius could help. > > Thanks in advance. > > vd > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/ggplot-rank-stack-bar-automatically-tp4391042p4391042.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.