Setting Order of R Highcharter Categories - r

Question

I noticed that my bar graphs change in order based on alphabetical order. I'm using a selectinput, thus if a person who is selected with a name beginning in A, they are at the top, but if it is a letter after C, then they move to the bottom. This is not based on the value of the bars, but seems tied to the names. How can I keep the ProviderName at top always?
My hc code is below
hchart(
comparison_prov_df,
type = "bar",
hcaes(x = Metric, y = Value, group = ProviderName),
colorByPoint = F,
showInLegend = T,
dataLabels = list(enabled = T)
) %>%
hc_chart(zoomType = "xy") %>%
hc_tooltip(crosshairs = TRUE, shared = FALSE, borderWidth = 1) %>%
hc_credits(
enabled = TRUE,
text = ""
) %>%
hc_add_theme(hc_theme_elementary()) %>%
hc_legend(enabled = TRUE) %>%
hc_exporting(
enabled = TRUE,
filename = "data"
) %>%
hc_title(
text = "Title",
align = "left"
) %>%
hc_yAxis(
title = list(text = "Y Axis"),
labels = list(
reserveSpace = TRUE,
overflow = "justify"
)
) %>%
hc_xAxis(title = "") %>%
hc_tooltip(pointFormat = "{point.y:.1f}")

Answer 1

I am not sure what the original data is like, but I'll provide a simple example of one way to change the order of items on an axis. You can change the order by simply using hc_xAxis and then listing the category order.
library(highcharter)
library(tidyverse)
df %>%
hchart("bar", hcaes(x = category, y = value, group = group)) %>%
hc_xAxis(
categories = list(
"Pineapples",
"Strawberries",
"Apples",
"Plums",
"Blueberries",
"Oranges"
)
)
Output
Data
set.seed(326)
df <-
data.frame(category = rep(c(
"Apples", "Oranges", "Plums", "Pineapples", "Strawberries", "Blueberries"
), each = 2),
value = round(runif(12, min = 0, max = 100)),
group = rep(c(2020, 2021), 6))