Reordering Plot and Changing Axis Size (R ggplot) - r

Question

I'm trying to change in both of my plots, the order and the x axis size for both. These are not being able to be changed accordingly
DF Creation
contig_count_average <- data.frame(Genome_Type = c("MBT", "Anglucyclines", "Whole Genome"),
Contig_Count_Average = c("2.91","83.7","608.3"))
Plot
p2 <- ggplot(contig_count_average, mapping = aes(x = reorder(Genome_Type, Contig_Count_Average), Contig_Count_Average, fill = Genome_Type)) +
xlab("Genome") +
ylab("Contig No.") +
ggtitle("Contig Count per Genome Distribution") +
geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
theme(text = element_text(size=20),
axis.text.x = element_text(angle=90, hjust=1)) +
guides(fill=guide_legend(title="Genome Type")) +
coord_flip() +
theme_bw() +
scale_y_continuous(limits = c(0,2835), expand = c(0, 0)) +
scale_x_discrete(labels = abbreviate)
p
I get the following warning:
1: In Ops.factor(Contig_Count_Average) : ‘-’ not meaningful for factors

Answer 1

The issue is because Contig_Count_Average is treated as factors in contig_count_average.
We can change it to numeric by doing either :
contig_count_average <- type.convert(contig_count_average, as.is = TRUE
Or
contig_count_average$Contig_Count_Average <- as.numeric(as.character(contig_count_average$Contig_Count_Average))
and then use the ggplot code.
p2 <- ggplot(contig_count_average, mapping = aes(x = reorder(Genome_Type,
Contig_Count_Average), Contig_Count_Average, fill = Genome_Type)) +
xlab("Genome") +
ylab("Contig No.") +
ggtitle("Contig Count per Genome Distribution") +
geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
theme(text = element_text(size=20),
axis.text.x = element_text(angle=90, hjust=1)) +
guides(fill=guide_legend(title="Genome Type")) +
coord_flip() +
theme_bw() +
scale_y_continuous(limits = c(0,2835), expand = c(0, 0)) +
scale_x_discrete(labels = abbreviate)
p2
Also note that you can use geom_col instead of geom_bar(stat = "identity").