ggplot2 reorder multiple groups

Question

I have four tibble composed by token and similarity.

    # A tibble: 15 x 2
   token     similarity
   <chr>          <dbl>
 1 beer           1.000
 2 bud            0.495
 3 answering      0.492
 4 raw            0.489
 5 tequila        0.476
 6 shower         0.468
 7 colors         0.468
 8 flx            0.457
 9 carrots        0.450
10 learn          0.447
11 pong           0.445
12 tall           0.444
13 drinking       0.444
14 brew           0.443
15 anything       0.442

Source code to group

beer %>%
  mutate(selected = "beer") %>%
  bind_rows(alcohol %>%
              mutate(selected = "alcohol")) %>%
  bind_rows(drunk %>%
              mutate(selected = "drunk")) %>%
  bind_rows(sober %>%
              mutate(selected = "sober")) %>%
  group_by(selected) %>%
  top_n(15, similarity) %>%
  ungroup %>%
  mutate(token = reorder(token, similarity)) %>%
  ggplot(aes(token, similarity, fill = selected)) +
  geom_col(show.legend = FALSE) +
  facet_wrap(~selected, scales = "free") +
  coord_flip() +
  theme(strip.text=element_text(hjust=0, size=12)) +
  scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0,0))

When I try plot four groups, the graphic is cluttered:

How can I reorder the graphic?

how do you want to reorder them? – YOLO Dec 26 '18 at 00:12 — YOLO, Dec 26 '18 at 00:12
By similarity. The tibble is sort. – Marcos Grzeça Dec 26 '18 at 00:15 — Marcos Grzeça, Dec 26 '18 at 00:15
This might help https://stackoverflow.com/a/52214383/786542 – Tung Dec 26 '18 at 06:23 — Tung, Dec 26 '18 at 06:23
@Tung thank you. It's work – Marcos Grzeça Dec 26 '18 at 21:43 — Marcos Grzeça, Dec 26 '18 at 21:43

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 26 '18 at 07:05

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Try:

...
ggplot(aes(reorder(token, similarity), similarity, fill = selected)) +
...

answered Dec 26 '18 at 07:05

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 23 '19 at 01:05

As pointed out by @Tung, the solution lies in this link.

Final source code:

reorder_within <- function(x, by, within, fun = mean, sep = "___", ...) {
  new_x <- paste(x, within, sep = sep)
  stats::reorder(new_x, by, FUN = fun)
}

scale_x_reordered <- function(..., sep = "___") {
  reg <- paste0(sep, ".+$")
  ggplot2::scale_x_discrete(labels = function(x) gsub(reg, "", x), ...)
}

beer %>%
  mutate(selected = "beer") %>%
  bind_rows(alcohol %>%
              mutate(selected = "alcohol")) %>%
  bind_rows(drunk %>%
              mutate(selected = "drunk")) %>%
  bind_rows(sober %>%
              mutate(selected = "sober")) %>%
  group_by(selected) %>%
  top_n(15, similarity) %>%
  ungroup %>%
  mutate(token = reorder(token, similarity)) %>%
  ggplot(aes(reorder_within(token, similarity, selected), similarity)) +
  geom_segment(aes(xend = reorder_within(token, similarity, selected), yend = 0), 
               colour = "#FF9999") +
  scale_x_reordered() +
  geom_col(show.legend = FALSE) +
  facet_wrap(~selected, scales = "free") +
  coord_flip() +
  xlab("token") +
  theme(strip.text=element_text(hjust=0, size=12)) +
  scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0,0)) +
  geom_bar(stat = "identity")

ggplot2 reorder multiple groups

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