Create ggplot2 Plot with Factor on X-Axis in R (Example Code)
This article shows how to draw a ggplot2 plot with a factor on the x-axis in R programming.
Example Data
data(iris) # Example data frame head(iris) # Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species # 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa # 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa # 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa # 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa # 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa # 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa |
data(iris) # Example data frame head(iris) # Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species # 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa # 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa # 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa # 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa # 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa # 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
Example: Create ggplot2 Scatterplot with Factor on X-Axis Using geom_point() Function
install.packages("ggplot2") # Install & load ggplot2 library("ggplot2") |
install.packages("ggplot2") # Install & load ggplot2 library("ggplot2")
ggplot(iris, # Draw line plot with factor on x-axis aes(x = Species, y = Sepal.Length, col = Species)) + geom_point() |
ggplot(iris, # Draw line plot with factor on x-axis aes(x = Species, y = Sepal.Length, col = Species)) + geom_point()
Related Articles & Further Resources
You may find some additional R programming tutorials on topics such as factors, time objects, and graphics in R in the following list.