Basic ggplot - categorical x-axis

[kelsicle]

I'm having a hell of a time with what feels like a fairly basic plot. I'm just trying to get a super-basic look at some data before I begin real analysis. I'm trying to get my data plotted with a simple bar chart, with Country along the x-axis and percent on the y.

Here's the head() table for my data.

Country             percent
Algeria	         6.520605e-07			
Cabo Verde	     9.423077e-05			
Swaziland	     4.881890e-04			
Botswana	     4.694836e-04			
Namibia	         3.836207e-03			
Sao Tome	     8.947368e-02	

I've looked it up and tried a few things but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it to recognize Country as something it can and should put as my predictor.

[andresrcs]

@kelsicle

I'm trying to get my data plotted with a simple bar chart, with Country along the x-axis and percent on the y.

Is this what you mean?

library(ggplot2)
library(scales)

# Sample data on a copy/paste friendly format
sample_df <- data.frame(
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
           Country = c("Algeria","Cabo Verde",
                       "Swaziland","Botswana","Namibia","Sao Tome"),
           percent = c(6.520605e-07,9.423077e-05,
                       0.000488189,0.0004694836,0.003836207,0.08947368)
)

ggplot(sample_df, aes(x = Country, y = percent)) +
    geom_col() +
    scale_y_continuous(labels = percent_format())

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[kelsicle]

Yes, thank you so much!