Horizontal Bar in ggplot2

How to make Horizontal Bar plots ggplot2 with Plotly.


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Changing bar plot orientation

library(plotly)
g <- ggplot(mpg, aes(class))  
p <-  ggplot(mpg) + geom_bar(aes(y = class))

ggplotly(p)

Stacking bar plots

Bar plots are automatically stacked when multiple bars are at the same location. The order of the fill is designed to match the legend.

To flip the order (because you've flipped the orientation) call position_stack() explicitly.

library(plotly)
g <- ggplot(mpg, aes(class))  
p <-    
 ggplot(mpg, aes(y = class)) +
 geom_bar(aes(fill = drv), position = position_stack(reverse = TRUE)) +
 theme(legend.position = "top")

ggplotly(p)

What About Dash?

Dash for R is an open-source framework for building analytical applications, with no Javascript required, and it is tightly integrated with the Plotly graphing library.

Learn about how to install Dash for R at https://dashr.plot.ly/installation.

Everywhere in this page that you see fig, you can display the same figure in a Dash for R application by passing it to the figure argument of the Graph component from the built-in dashCoreComponents package like this:

library(plotly)

fig <- plot_ly() 
# fig <- fig %>% add_trace( ... )
# fig <- fig %>% layout( ... ) 

library(dash)
library(dashCoreComponents)
library(dashHtmlComponents)

app <- Dash$new()
app$layout(
    htmlDiv(
        list(
            dccGraph(figure=fig) 
        )
     )
)

app$run_server(debug=TRUE, dev_tools_hot_reload=FALSE)