Thanks Kenneth. That is the right idea for what I’m after. However, creating a combined factor based on “g” and “f” is creating unwanted spaces between the bars in the plot (I’d like to keep them adjacent within levels of “g” as shown in my first plot).
I had the idea that ordering bars in ggplot with respect to a variable within factor levels would be easier, but looks it is not. Thanks again, Axe. On Apr 14, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres < krcab...@une.net.co> wrote: A very dirty solution. I hope someone can give a better solution: library(ggplot2) set.seed(1) df <- expand.grid(g = factor(1:4), f = factor(c("a", "b", "c"))) df <- df[-1, ] # some factors are not present in certain groups df$v <- runif(nrow(df)) library(dplyr) df <- df %>% arrange(g, desc(v)) df$nv <- with(df, factor(paste(g,f))) df$nv <- factor(df$nv, levels = df$nv) ggplot(df, aes(x = nv , y = v, fill = f)) + geom_bar(position="dodge", stat = "identity") El 14/04/17 a las 10:08, Axel Urbiz escribi�: Hi, I need to bars to display in order based on the values of "v" within each group "g". Is this possible? library(ggplot2) set.seed(1) df <- expand.grid(g = 1:4, f = factor(c("a", "b", "c"))) df <- df[-1, ] # some factors are not present in certain groups df$v <- runif(nrow(df)) ggplot(df, aes(x = g, y = v, fill = f)) + geom_bar(position="dodge", stat = "identity") Thanks, Axel. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.