[R] GGPLOT2: Reverse order of legend to match order of x-axis

[Ryan Garner]

Hadley, it doesn't work. Here is my step by step sequence following the
Wordpress site instructions.

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> library(ggplot2)
Loading required package: proto
Loading required package: grid
Loading required package: reshape
Loading required package: plyr
Loading required package: digest
> ggplot(diamonds, aes(clarity, fill = cut)) + geom_bar()
http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1689957/plot1.jpeg 
> levels(diamonds$cut)
[1] "Fair"      "Good"      "Very Good" "Premium"   "Ideal"    
> diamonds$cut <- factor(diamonds$cut, levels = rev(levels(diamonds$cut)))
> levels(diamonds$cut)
[1] "Ideal"     "Premium"   "Very Good" "Good"      "Fair"
http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1689957/plot2.jpeg 
> ggplot(diamonds, aes(clarity, fill = cut, order = -as.numeric(cut))) +
> geom_bar()
http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1689957/plot3.jpeg 
> diamonds$cut <- factor(diamonds$cut, levels = rev(levels(diamonds$cut)))
> ggplot(diamonds, aes(clarity, fill = cut, order = -as.numeric(cut))) +
> geom_bar()
http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1689957/plot4.jpeg 
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