Position geom_text in the middle of each bar segment in a geom_col stacked barchart
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You need to have a variable mapped to an aesthetic to represent the groups in geom_text
. For you, this is your "sector" variable. You can use it with the group
aesthetic in geom_text
.
Then use position_stack
with vjust
to center the labels.
ggplot(data = dta) +
geom_col(aes(x = group, y = value, fill = sector)) +
geom_text(aes(x = group, y = value, label = value, group = sector),
position = position_stack(vjust = .5))
You could save some typing by setting your aesthetics globally. Then fill
would be used as the grouping variable for geom_text
and you can skip group
.
ggplot(data = dta, aes(x = group, y = value, fill = sector)) +
geom_col() +
geom_text(aes(label = value),
position = position_stack(vjust = .5))
Author by
gosz
Updated on November 22, 2020Comments
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gosz over 3 years
I would like to position the corresponding value labels in a
geom_col
stacked barchart in the middle of each bar segment.However, my naive attempt fails.
library(ggplot2) # Version: ggplot2 2.2 dta <- data.frame(group = c("A","A","A", "B","B","B"), sector = c("x","y","z", "x","y","z"), value = c(10,20,70, 30,20,50)) ggplot(data = dta) + geom_col(aes(x = group, y = value, fill = sector)) + geom_text(position="stack", aes(x = group, y = value, label = value))
Obviously, setting
y=value/2
forgeom_text
does not help, either. Besides, the text is positioned in the wrong order (reversed).Any (elegant) ideas how to solve this?