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							@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ When working with factors, the two most common operations are changing the order
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It's often useful to change the order of the factor levels in a visualisation. For example, imagine you want to explore the average number of hours spent watching TV per day across religions:
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```{r}
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relig <- gss_cat %>%
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relig_summary <- gss_cat %>%
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  group_by(relig) %>%
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  summarise(
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    age = mean(age, na.rm = TRUE),
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@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ relig <- gss_cat %>%
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    n = n()
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  )
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ggplot(relig, aes(tvhours, relig)) + geom_point()
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ggplot(relig_summary, aes(tvhours, relig)) + geom_point()
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```
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It is difficult to interpret this plot because there's no overall pattern. We can improve it by reordering the levels of `relig` using `fct_reorder()`. `fct_reorder()` takes three arguments:
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@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ It is difficult to interpret this plot because there's no overall pattern. We ca
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  `x` for each value of `f`. The default value is `median`.
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```{r}
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ggplot(relig, aes(tvhours, fct_reorder(relig, tvhours))) +
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ggplot(relig_summary, aes(tvhours, fct_reorder(relig, tvhours))) +
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  geom_point()
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```
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@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ Reordering religion makes it much easier to see that people in the "Don't know"
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As you start making more complicated transformations, I'd recommend moving them out of `aes()` and into a separate `mutate()` step. For example, you could rewrite the plot above as:
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```{r, eval = FALSE}
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relig %>%
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relig_summary %>%
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  mutate(relig = fct_reorder(relig, tvhours)) %>%
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  ggplot(aes(tvhours, relig)) +
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    geom_point()
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@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ relig %>%
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What if we create a similar plot looking at how average age varies across reported income level?
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```{r}
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rincome <- gss_cat %>%
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rincome_summary <- gss_cat %>%
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  group_by(rincome) %>%
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  summarise(
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    age = mean(age, na.rm = TRUE),
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    n = n()
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  )
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ggplot(rincome, aes(age, fct_reorder(rincome, age))) + geom_point()
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ggplot(rincome_summary, aes(age, fct_reorder(rincome, age))) + geom_point()
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```
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Here, arbitrarily reordering the levels isn't a good idea! That's because `rincome` already has a principled order that we shouldn't mess with. Reserve `fct_reorder()` for factors whose levels are arbitrarily ordered.
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@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ Here, arbitrarily reordering the levels isn't a good idea! That's because `rinco
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However, it does make sense to pull "Not applicable" to the front with the other special levels. You can use `fct_relevel()`. It takes a factor, `f`, and then any number of levels that you want to move to the front of the line.
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```{r}
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ggplot(rincome, aes(age, fct_relevel(rincome, "Not applicable"))) +
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ggplot(rincome_summary, aes(age, fct_relevel(rincome, "Not applicable"))) +
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  geom_point()
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```
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