Grouped bar chart using ggplot

Question

I have the following data frame:

df<- read.table(text = "months ratio_1 ratio_2
1  January  11.757426       18.047800
2  February 12.515489       20.544807
3  March    12.703583       18.818962
4  April    11.348465       15.229768
5  May      13.366337       12.030971
6  June     15.371622       12.866768
7  July     13.157895        7.711387
8  August   12.939002       11.344097
9  September 8.401084       16.298587
10 October   10.494753       14.334838
11  November 8.695652       19.626384
12  December    11.248285       16.640037", header = TRUE, sep = "")

and I want to create a grouped bar chart. I used plotly and the result is as I want to be:

However, I realized that in order to download it as eps format, I have to pay a subscription. For that reason, I tried ggplot. This is what I tried using the tutorials:

  gplot(df, aes(months, ratio_1)) +   
  + geom_bar(aes(fill = ratio_2), position = "dodge", stat="identity")

The result is not what I actually want:

Haboryme · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-02 17:35:09Z

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You need to reshape the data to a long format and then use ggplot. Don't forget setting the stat to identity and the position to "dodge "("stacked" by default).

library(ggplot2)
library(reshape
ggplot(melt(df,id.vars="months"),aes(x=months,y=value,fill=variable))+
  geom_bar(stat="identity",position="dodge")+
  theme_bw()+
  scale_fill_discrete(labels=c("Ratio 1","Ratio2"),name=NULL)

And if you want it to look somewhat like your original you could do:

ggplot(melt(df,id.vars="months"),aes(x=months,y=value,fill=variable))+
  geom_bar(stat="identity",position="dodge")+
  theme_bw()+
  scale_fill_manual(labels=c("ratio 1","ratio2"),name=NULL,values = c("blue", "orange"))+
  ylab("Percentage %")+
  xlab("Months")

answered Feb 2, 2017 at 17:35

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