Formatting GGplot stacked barplot - r

Question

I am making a set of scorecards where I am generating a set of graphs that show the distribution of responses from a survey and also where the response for a specific company falls. I need to modify the formatting of a graph, a stacked barchart, and add a few features I’ve outlined below. I’ve already spent a few hours getting my chart to where it is now and would appreciate your help with the features I outline below.
Data is
Data<-data.frame(Reviewed = c("Annually", "Annually", "Hourly", "Monthly", "Weekly","Monthly","Weekly","Other","Other","Monthly","Weekly"),Company=c("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k"),Question="Q1")
So far I’ve developed this
ggplot(Data, aes(x="Question", fill=Reviewed)) + geom_bar(position='fill' ) +
coord_flip()
I would like to do the following:
Order the variables so they are arranged on plot as follows: Annually,Monthly,Weekly,Hourly,Other
Express the y axis in terms of percent. I.e. 0.25 turns into 25%
Move y-axis directly underneath the bar.
Remove the legend but move the terms underneath the respective part of the graph on a diagonal slant.
Add a black line that cuts down the 50% mark
Add a dot in at the midpoint of the stack for the value of company “e”.
Remove gray background
This is what I'm hoping the finished graph will look like.

Answer 1

There's a lot to unpack here, so I'll break it down bit by bit:
Order the variables so they are arranged on plot as follows: Annually,Monthly,Weekly,Hourly,Other
Assign "Reviewed" as an ordered factor. I'm reversing the order here since it wants to plot the "lowest" factor first (to the left).
Data$Reviewed <- factor(Data$Reviewed,
levels = rev(c('Annually', 'Monthly', 'Weekly', 'Hourly', 'Other')),
ordered = T)
ggplot(Data, aes(x="Question", fill=Reviewed)) + geom_bar(position='fill' ) +
coord_flip()
Express the y axis in terms of percent. I.e. 0.25 turns into 25%
Use scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent) to adjust the labels. I believe that the scales was pulled in when you installed ggplot2.
ggplot(Data, aes(x="Question", fill=Reviewed)) +
geom_bar(position = 'fill') +
scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent) +
coord_flip()
Move y-axis directly underneath the bar.
Remove gray background
These are done all at once by adding expand = F to coord_flip.
ggplot(Data, aes(x="Question", fill=Reviewed)) +
geom_bar(position = 'fill') +
scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent) +
coord_flip(expand = F)
Remove the legend...
Add theme(legend.position = 'none').
ggplot(Data, aes(x="Question", fill=Reviewed)) +
geom_bar(position = 'fill') +
scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent) +
coord_flip(expand = F) +
theme(legend.position = 'none')
but move the terms underneath the respective part of the graph on a diagonal slant.
This is tougher and takes a good amount of fiddling.
Use geom_text to make the labels
Calculate the position along the bar using the 'count' stat
Move the labels to the bottom of the plot by providing a fake x coordinate
Align the labels in the center of the bars using position_stack, and make them abut the x axis using hjust.
Add angle.
Use clip = 'off' in coord_flip to make sure that these values are not cut out since they're outside the plotting area.
Fiddle with the x limits to crop out empty plotting area.
Adjust the plot margin in theme to make sure everything can be seen.
ggplot(Data, aes(x="Question", fill=Reviewed)) +
geom_bar(position = 'fill') +
geom_text(aes(label = Reviewed, x = 0.45,
y = stat(..count../sum(..count..))), stat = 'count',
position = position_stack(0.5),
hjust = 0,
angle = 45) +
scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent) +
coord_flip(xlim = c(0.555, 1.4), clip = 'off',expand = F) +
theme(plot.margin = margin(0, 0, 35, 10),
legend.position = 'none')
Add a black line that cuts down the 50% mark
Use geom_hline(yintercept = 0.5); remember that it's a "horizontal" line since the coordinates are flipped.
ggplot(Data, aes(x="Question", fill=Reviewed)) +
geom_bar(position = 'fill') +
geom_text(aes(label = Reviewed, x = 0.45,
y = stat(..count../sum(..count..))), stat = 'count',
position = position_stack(0.5),
hjust = 0,
angle = 45) +
geom_hline(yintercept = 0.5) +
scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent) +
coord_flip(xlim = c(0.555, 1.4), clip = 'off',expand = F) +
theme(plot.margin = margin(0, 0, 20, 10),
legend.position = 'none')
Add a dot in at the midpoint of the stack for the value of company “e”.
This is pretty hack-y. Using the same y values as in geom_text, use geom_point to plot a point for every value of Reviewed, then use position_stack(0.5) to nudge them to the center of the bar. Then use scale_color_manual to only color "Weekly" values (which is the corresponding value of Reviewed for Company "e"). I'm sure there's a way to do this more programmatically.
ggplot(Data, aes(x="Question", fill=Reviewed)) +
geom_bar(position = 'fill') +
geom_text(aes(label = Reviewed, x = 0.45,
y = stat(..count../sum(..count..))), stat = 'count',
position = position_stack(0.5),
hjust = 0,
angle = 45) +
geom_hline(yintercept = 0.5) +
geom_point(aes(y = stat(..count../sum(..count..)),
color = Reviewed), stat = 'count',
position = position_stack(0.5), size = 5) +
scale_color_manual(values = 'black', limits = 'Weekly') +
scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent) +
coord_flip(xlim = c(0.555, 1.4), clip = 'off',expand = F) +
theme(plot.margin = margin(0, 0, 20, 10),
legend.position = 'none')
This is what I'm hoping the finished graph will look like.
Prettying things up:
ggplot(Data, aes(x="Question", fill = Reviewed)) +
geom_bar(position = 'fill') +
geom_text(aes(label = Reviewed, x = 0.45,
y = stat(..count../sum(..count..))), stat = 'count',
position = position_stack(0.5),
hjust = 0,
angle = 45) +
geom_hline(yintercept = 0.5) +
geom_point(aes(y = stat(..count../sum(..count..)),
color = Reviewed), stat = 'count',
position = position_stack(0.5), size = 5) +
scale_color_manual(values = 'black', limits = 'Weekly') +
scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent) +
coord_flip(xlim = c(0.555, 1.4), clip = 'off', expand = F) +
labs(x = NULL, y = NULL) +
theme_minimal() +
theme(plot.margin = margin(0, 0, 35, 10),
legend.position = 'none')