[R] ggplot rank stack bar automatically.

[R. Michael Weylandt]

It looks like period is a factor, so you can reorder the factor levels
however you wish and then plot them the same way. I believe recode()
in library(car) is a popular function for doing this, but I haven't
used it myself.

Michael

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:34 AM, vd3000 <vd3000 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I am currently trying to learn this example.
> http://learnr.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/ggplot2-barplots/
>
>
> I created the stack bar easily.
>
> If I would like to rank the stack bar from the highest on the right,
> shortest on the left and eventually
> I could show the data "1991-00" on the left and  "1823-30" on the right, how
> could I do that?
>
> Apart from this, I find something quite weird,
> If I import a data frame with column names containing \n, for example,
> pretty\nwoman, lemon\ntree, etc
> for example: f3=as.data.frame(read.table("f3.csv", sep=",", row.names=1,
> header=TRUE, check.names=FALSE))
> even I put check.names=FALSE, the column name will be changed to \\n, ie,
> pretty\\nwoman, lemon\\ntree.
> How could I get rid of extra "\"  sign ???
>
>
>
> Hope some genius could help.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> vd
>
>
>
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