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How can we change y axis to percent, instead of a fraction using Plotnine library in Python?

A MWE of a barplot is as follows:

from plotnine import *
from plotnine.data import mpg

p = ggplot(mpg) + geom_bar(aes(x='manufacturer', fill='class'), position='fill')
print(p)

Which gives the following figure:

Stacked bar chart with y axis as fraction not percent

With ggplot2 in R it is simple, just need to add:

+ scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent)

However I have not been able to find how to do this in Plotnine.

Any advise?

Camilo Ramirez
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2 Answers2

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similar question raised here: https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine/issues/152

from plotnine import *
from plotnine.data import mpg
from mizani.formatters import percent_format

p = ggplot(mpg) + geom_bar(aes(x='manufacturer', fill='class'), position='fill')
p = p + scale_y_continuous(labels=percent_format())
print(p)

other predefined filters can be found here: https://mizani.readthedocs.io/en/stable/formatters.html

vyang
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The labels parameter accepts a callable that takes the list of break points as input. All you have to do is to convert each item in the list manually:

scale_y_continuous(labels=lambda l: ["%d%%" % (v * 100) for v in l])
João Eduardo
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