If I understand correctly, just subset your sorted data. e.g. :
x <- runif(50) ## 50 unsorted values sort(x, dec = TRUE)[1:10] ## the 10 biggest -- Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 7:13 PM Jeff Reichman <reichm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > R-Help Forum > > I'm using the following code to reorder (from highest to lowest) my miRNA > counts. But there are 500 plus and I only need the first (say) 15-20. How > do I limit ggplot to only the first 20 miRNA counts > > ggplot(data = corr.m, aes(x = reorder(miRNA, -value), y = value, fill = > variable)) + > geom_bar(stat = "identity") > > Jeff > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
