How to recode a factor in order to make a pie chart

[saharazh]

I have a column (in a dataframe, with each row represent a paper published) called Publisher. It's a factor. I used this code to run a frequency table:
table(data$Publisher) %>%
sort(decreasing=TRUE)

I got a frequency table like this:
BMC
28
PloS
18
Springer Nature
9
Elsevier
5
BMJ
3
(here I omitted many other values with frequency less than 3)

I'm trying to regroup all the publishers with value less than 3 into "Other", because I'm hoping to group those publishers with which not many papers have been published into Other in a pie chart. Otherwise the pie chart would get too crowded and not meaningful. But I'm stuck here with recoding Publisher. Can anybody help?

[andresrcs]

You can use fct_lump() or fct_other() from forcats package

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[saharazh]

Thanks so much for your help! I've never heard of forecats but it sounds exactly what I need! I'll try it out.
Thanks also for the info about Reproducible example. I'll use it if I still can't figure this issue out.

[saharazh]

It worked! Here is my code:

data%>% 
    mutate(Publisher=fct_lump(Publisher, n=6))%>%
    count(Publisher)

Thanks again!

[andresrcs]

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[saharazh]

done! thanks for the reminder! And many thanks for introducing me to forcats!