Question

I have a data set like this:

cars    trucks  suvs
1          2    4
3          5    4
6          4    6
4          5    6
9          12   16

I’m trying to draw a bar chart for this data. Currently, I can do it with barplot:

barplot(as.matrix(autos_data), main="Autos", 
         ylab= "Total",beside=TRUE, col=rainbow(5))

Generating this graph:

So my questions are:
Can I use ggplot2 to draw such a graph? Specifically – how do I use faceting or other options to split the graph by days of the week?
If yes, how do I accomplish that?
Additionally, how do I use facet to produce a different layout?

Answer 1

This has been asked many times before. The answer is that you have to use stat="identity" in geom_bar to tell ggplot not to summarise your data.

dat <- read.table(text="
cars    trucks  suvs
1   2   4
3   5   4
6   4   6
4   5   6
9   12  16", header=TRUE, as.is=TRUE)
dat$day <- factor(c("Mo", "Tu", "We", "Th", "Fr"), 
             levels=c("Mo", "Tu", "We", "Th", "Fr"))

library(reshape2)
library(ggplot2)

mdat <- melt(dat, id.vars="day")
head(mdat)
ggplot(mdat, aes(variable, value, fill=day)) + 
  geom_bar(stat="identity", position="dodge")