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4 messages · Bert Gunter, Jeff Newmiller, Jeff Reichman

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I'm using the following code to reorder (from highest to lowest) my miRNA
counts.  But there are 500 plus and I only need the first (say) 15-20.  How
do I limit ggplot to only the first 20 miRNA counts

ggplot(data = corr.m, aes(x = reorder(miRNA, -value), y = value, fill =
variable)) + 
  geom_bar(stat = "identity")

Jeff
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If I understand correctly, just subset your sorted data.

e.g. :

x <- runif(50)
##  50 unsorted values

sort(x, dec = TRUE)[1:10]
## the 10 biggest


-- Bert



Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 7:13 PM Jeff Reichman <reichmanj at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

  
  
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A reproducible example would help here (you cannot assume we know what type "miRNA" is) but guessing from the use of "reorder" I suspect it is a factor. In which case after you subset you will need to use the droplevels function to remove the unused levels, and then plot that prepared data.
On October 14, 2018 8:51:29 PM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    
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Bert 

Jeff

 

I just resorted and took the top 30 and then reordered again in the geom_bar function ? below

 

ggplot(data=st.cnt)+

  geom_bar(aes(x=reorder(CourseName, -n), y=n),fill = "dark blue", stat="identity")+

  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 60, hjust = 1))

 

Jeff

 

From: Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2018 10:51 PM
To: reichmanj at sbcglobal.net
Cc: R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] limit bar graph output

 

If I understand correctly, just subset your sorted data.

 

e.g. :

 

x <- runif(50)

##  50 unsorted values

 

sort(x, dec = TRUE)[1:10]  

## the 10 biggest

 

 

-- Bert

 

 




Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 7:13 PM Jeff Reichman <reichmanj at sbcglobal.net <mailto:reichmanj at sbcglobal.net> > wrote:
R-Help Forum

I'm using the following code to reorder (from highest to lowest) my miRNA
counts.  But there are 500 plus and I only need the first (say) 15-20.  How
do I limit ggplot to only the first 20 miRNA counts

ggplot(data = corr.m, aes(x = reorder(miRNA, -value), y = value, fill =
variable)) + 
  geom_bar(stat = "identity")

Jeff

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