Hadley, it doesn't work. Here is my step by step sequence following the Wordpress site instructions.
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. Natural language support but running in an English locale R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > library(ggplot2) Loading required package: proto Loading required package: grid Loading required package: reshape Loading required package: plyr Loading required package: digest > ggplot(diamonds, aes(clarity, fill = cut)) + geom_bar() http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1689957/plot1.jpeg > levels(diamonds$cut) [1] "Fair" "Good" "Very Good" "Premium" "Ideal" > diamonds$cut <- factor(diamonds$cut, levels = rev(levels(diamonds$cut))) > levels(diamonds$cut) [1] "Ideal" "Premium" "Very Good" "Good" "Fair" http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1689957/plot2.jpeg > ggplot(diamonds, aes(clarity, fill = cut, order = -as.numeric(cut))) + > geom_bar() http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1689957/plot3.jpeg > diamonds$cut <- factor(diamonds$cut, levels = rev(levels(diamonds$cut))) > ggplot(diamonds, aes(clarity, fill = cut, order = -as.numeric(cut))) + > geom_bar() http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1689957/plot4.jpeg -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/GGPLOT2-Reverse-order-of-legend-to-match-order-of-x-axis-tp1689526p1689957.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.