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As a general point of information I can say that data ordering in R graphs is normally driven by the factor level ordering, and you usually have to specify that explicitly when you convert from character to factor. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. kay <kay.lue...@uni-rostock.de> wrote: >Hello >i did a stacked barplot using ggplot and R arranged the bars of the >items in >different orders. i don“t know why. but i want to have the same order >in >every stacked bar. > >I used the code > >data1 <- read.table("N_O_W_MAI.txt", header=TRUE, dec = ",") >attach(data1) >Teich1<-factor(Teich,levels=c(5,7,9,11,"G") ,ordered=is.ordered(Teich)) >Gruppe1<-factor(Gruppe,levels=c("Annelida","Cladocera","Copepoda", >"Diptera","Ephemeroptera","Ostracoda","Sonstige"),ordered=is.ordered(Gruppe)) > >data2<-data.frame(Teich1,Gruppe,Herkunft,IRI) >data2 >> str(data2) >'data.frame': 65 obs. of 3 variables: >$ Teich1: Factor w/ 5 levels "2","4","8","10",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 >... >$ Gruppe1: Factor w/ 7 levels "Annelida","Asellus",..: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 >2 3 >... > $ IRI : num 0.606 16.274 0.326 0.396 0 ... >attach(data2) >#?data.frame >str(data2) > library(ggplot2) > >ggplot(data2, aes(Teich1,IRI, fill=Gruppe1)) + > geom_bar(stat="summary", fun.y="sum") + > facet_grid(~Herkunft) > >So i get a plot with stacked bars for every "Teich1"(Pond), the stacks >show >the summed proportion ("IRI") of the diffrent species ("Gruppe1") in >every >pond. Every species has a discret colour, but the order of species is >displayed different for the ponds. In the original data they have the >same >order for every pond. This is what i want to have for the stacked >barplot, >too. >Has anybody an idea? >thanks >Kay > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/order-in-stacked-barplot-tp4649321.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.