R Stackbar plot with Binary variables

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I want to use ggplot, my data is as such

x <- c(TRUE,FALSE,FALSE,TRUE,TRUE,FALSE) #Logical
y <- c(0,1,1,0,1,0) #Numeric
dat <- data.frame(x,y)

I want to create a stacked barchart showing percentage...This seems like it should be an easy problem but somehow I'm getting this messed up and can't find a straight answer.

I've tried this

ggplot(data = dat, aes(x = x, y = y, fill = y))+geom_bar(position = 'fill', stat = 'identity')


ggplot(data = dat, aes(x = x, y = factor(y), fill = y))+geom_bar(position = 'fill', stat = 'identity')

The second one looks closer but the axis squashes everything to sum to 0?

Taher A. Ghaleb · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-18 18:07:00Z

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Set position = 'stack' and the y-axis to the sum of y values, like this:

ggplot(data = dat, 
       aes(x = x, y = sum(y), fill = y)) +
       geom_bar(position = 'stack', stat = 'identity')

Hope you find it useful.

answered Nov 18, 2019 at 18:07

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ravic_ · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-18 17:54:15Z

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Try:

ggplot(data = dat, aes(x = x, fill = factor(y))) +
  geom_bar()

In particular, geom_bar() has a default for its aggregation to count up the rows (stat = "count"). You'd use stat = "identity" when you had already pre-calc'd the counts.

answered Nov 18, 2019 at 17:54

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