How to change the order of bars in bar chart in R?

This can be done by setting the levels of the variable in the order we want.

Example

> data <- data.frame(Class=c("Highschool","Highschool","Graduate","Graduate", "Graduate","Graduate","Masters","Masters","Masters","PhD"))

Setting the levels in decreasing order

> data <- within(data, Class <- factor(Class, levels=names(sort(table(Class), decreasing=TRUE)))) > library(ggplot2) > ggplot(data, aes(x = Class)) + geom_bar()

Setting the levels in increasing order

> data <- within(data, Class <- factor(Class, levels=names(sort(table(Class), decreasing=TRUE)))) > ggplot(data, aes(x = Class)) + geom_bar()