Newbie here and I am having the darnest time in ggplot ordering my Y axis from least to greatest in a bar graph.
done some poking around and it seems to be a dataFrame issue from my CSV import but I am stumped on a solution
the bar graph is ordering the X axis of person's name alphabetically, which is fine but the Y axis is not in order. how do you order the Y axis descending or create a custom way?
I've tried removing dollar signs, used commas for the dollar figures and even tried decimals to denote the millions and billions but it never orders in numerically.
You have to map a numeric variable to the y axis and then you can add formatting within the scale_y_continuous() function, you are getting the y axis alphabetically because the mapped variable is of character class, try converting it to numeric first.
confused how those numbers are being interpreted as alphabetical on my Y axis? where would I start/how do I convert it from character class to numeric?? I have never done that before...
As I said, I would need you to provide a reprex in order to help you with your specific problem. Please read the guide in the link I gave you and try to provide a proper reproducible example.
