Probably a user error but I can't find it for the life of me. Trying to rearrange the order of factors in a boxplot I am making using ggplot using the, "scale_x_discrete(limits=(...)" function. Doing so results in the following warning message "Warning message: Removed 103 rows containing missing values (stat_boxplot". and a plot where one grouping is missing it's boxplot all together. I am confused as this has worked just fine for nearly identical plots of other factors, and the plot is totally normal if I don't try to rearrange and run it as is. There is nothing wrong with the underlying dataframe that I can tell (e.g. no missing values or NAs). Any thoughts on what the issue might be here?
Thanks!
example of boxplot pre-issue:
maxn_topo_plot<- ggplot(wide.df2, aes(x=topo, y=sum_maxn))
geom_boxplot(show.legend = FALSE) theme_pubclean(base_size = 20) xlab("Island Geomorpholgy") ylab("Shark MaxN")
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 12))
maxn_topo_plot
The code that has the issue:
maxn_topo_plot<- ggplot(wide.df2, aes(x=topo, y=sum_maxn))
geom_boxplot(show.legend = FALSE) theme_pubclean(base_size = 20) xlab("Island Geomorpholgy") ylab("Shark MaxN")
scale_x_discrete(limits=c("open atoll","closed atoll","near atoll", "high barrier", "high rocky", "high fringing"))
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 12))
maxn_topo_plot
code that works just fine:
max_isl_group<- ggplot(wide.df2, aes(x=isl_grp, y=sum_maxn))
geom_boxplot(show.legend = FALSE) theme_pubclean(base_size = 20) xlab("Island Group") ylab("Shark MaxN")
scale_x_discrete(limits=c("west tuamotu","east tuamotu","windward", "leeward", "marquesas", "australes"))
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 20))
max_isl_group
CodePudding user response:
I dont know exactly whats happening on your code
But, if you want other way to reorder the x axis without this message here it is:
maxn_topo_plot<- ggplot(wide.df2, aes(x= factor(topo,
levels = c("open atoll",
"closed atoll",
"near atoll",
"high barrier",
"high rocky",
"high fringing")), y=sum_maxn))
geom_boxplot(show.legend = FALSE)
xlab("Island Geomorpholgy")
ylab("Shark MaxN")
theme_pubclean(base_size = 20)
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 12))
CodePudding user response:
It was a rogue space in one of my factors "high fringing" that was the underlying issue. bangs head on desk. Hours well spent.