On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Lars Bishop <lars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > I'd like to produce a ggplot where the order of factors within facets is > based on the average of another variable. > > > Here's a reproducible example. My problem is that the factors are ordered > similarly in both facets. I would like to have, within each facet of `f1', > boxplots for 'x' within each factor `f2', where the boxplots are ordered > based on the average of x within each facet.
I think this is impossible if you keep your data in a single data.frame, because there can only be one order of the factor levels. You may have to split it out into separate data.frames, like this: df.1 <- subset(df, f1 == "A") df.2 <- subset(df, f1 == "B") df.1$f2 <- reorder(df.1$f2, df.1$Avg_x) df.2$f2 <- reorder(df.2$f2, df.2$Avg_x) ggplot(mapping = aes(x=f2, y=x)) + geom_boxplot(data=df.1) + geom_boxplot(data=df.2) + stat_summary(data = df.1, fun.y=mean, geom="point", col = "red") + stat_summary(data = df.2, fun.y=mean, geom="point", col = "red") + facet_wrap(~ f1, scale = "free", ncol = 1) Best, Ista > > > So in this case, for facet A: the order should be M4, M1, M3, M2; and for > facet B: M4, M2, M1, M3 > > > library(ggplot2) > > library(plyr) > > > set.seed(1) > > f1 <- sample(c("A", "B"), 100, replace= T) > > f2 <- gl(4, 25, labels = paste("M", 1:4, sep="")) > > x <- runif(100) > > df <- data.frame(f1, f2, x) > > #df <- df[order(df[,1]), ] > > df <- ddply(df, ~ f1 + f2, transform, Avg_x = mean(x)) > > > myplot <- ggplot(df, aes(x=reorder(f2, Avg_x), x)) + geom_boxplot() + > > facet_wrap(~ f1, scale = "free", ncol = 1) + > > stat_summary(fun.y=mean, geom="point", col = "red") > > myplot > > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > Lars. > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.