coord_flip

Flipped cartesian coordinates

Details

Flipped cartesian coordinates so that horizontal becomes vertical, and vertical, horizontal. This is primarly useful for converting geoms and statistics which display y conditional on x, to x conditional on y

See layer and qplot for more information on creating a complete plot from multiple components.

Examples


> qplot(cut, price, data=diamonds, geom="boxplot")


> .last_plot + coord_flip()


> 
> qplot(cut, data=diamonds, geom="bar")


> .last_plot + coord_flip()


> 
> qplot(carat, data=diamonds, geom="histogram")


> .last_plot + coord_flip()


> 
> # You can also use it to flip lines and area plots:
> qplot(1:5, (1:5)^2, geom="line")


> .last_plot + coord_flip()