Bar charts with percentage labels but counts on the y axis
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Bar charts and histograms are easily to understand. I often write for non-specialist audiences so I tend to use them a lot. People like percentages too, so a bar chart with counts on the y axis but percentage labels is a useful thing to be able to produce.
But how to do them in our graphics package of choice, ggplot? ggplot makes histograms by doing a stat transformation, stat_bin. Not sure whether this is a good design decision, rather than requiring the user to bin the data first, because it is harder to customise stat_bin to get what you want, in this case percentage labels.
library(ggplot2)
library(scales)
perbar=function(xx){
q=ggplot(data=data.frame(xx),aes(x=xx))+
geom_bar(aes(y = (..count..)),fill="orange")+
geom_text(aes(y = (..count..),label = ifelse((..count..)==0,"",scales::percent((..count..)/sum(..count..)))), stat="bin",colour="darkgreen")
q
}
perbar(mtcars$cyl)
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