reversing labels after coord_flip()

[Alan Kelly]

Hi all,  I'm using a forest plot to present the coordinates (plus and minus upper and lower confidence intervals) of a model based on the function supplied by Abhijit (http://www.r-bloggers.com/forest-plots-using-r-and-ggplot2/) after some necessary editing.  This function uses coord_flip() to reverse axes and, as a consequence, the y-axis is presented in reverse order.

A simple example of this effect is part of help for coord_flip as follows:

qplot(cut, price, data=diamonds, geom="boxplot")

# following this plot the order is "fair" to "ideal" as seems sensible. Now use coord_flip():

last_plot() + coord_flip()

# after the coord_flip() the order is "ideal" to "fair".

While using coord_flip() is it possible to ensure that the order is as intended e.g. "fair" to "ideal"?

Thanks for any suggestions,

Alan Kelly

[Brandon Hurr]

diamonds$cut<-factor(diamonds$cut, levels=rev(levels(diamonds$cut)))

qplot(cut, price, data=diamonds, geom="boxplot")

last_plot() + coord_flip()

Should work...

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 18:21, Alan Kelly <AKE...@tcd.ie> wrote:

last_plot() + coord_flip()

[Alan Kelly]

Brandon - many thanks, this worked nicely.

Alan

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