r - Create stacked barplot where each stack is scaled to sum to 100%

Question

I have a data.frame like this:

df <- read.csv(text = "ONE,TWO,THREE
                       23,234,324
                       34,534,12
                       56,324,124
                       34,234,124
                       123,534,654")

I want to produce a percent bar plot which looks like this (made in LibreOffice Calc):

Thus, the bars should be standarized so all stacks have the same height and sums to 100%. So far all I have been able to get is is a stacked barplot (not percent), using:

barplot(as.matrix(df))

Any help?

Answer 1

Here's a solution using that ggplot package (version 3.x) in addition to what you've gotten so far.

We use the position argument of geom_bar set to position = "fill". You may also use position = position_fill() if you want to use the arguments of position_fill() (vjust and reverse).

Note that your data is in a 'wide' format, whereas ggplot2 requires it to be in a 'long' format. Thus, we first need to gather the data.

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

dat <- read.table(text = "    ONE TWO THREE
1   23  234 324
2   34  534 12
3   56  324 124
4   34  234 124
5   123 534 654",sep = "",header = TRUE)

# Add an id variable for the filled regions and reshape
datm <- dat %>% 
  mutate(ind = factor(row_number())) %>%  
  gather(variable, value, -ind)

ggplot(datm, aes(x = variable, y = value, fill = ind)) + 
    geom_bar(position = "fill",stat = "identity") +
    # or:
    # geom_bar(position = position_fill(), stat = "identity") 
    scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent_format())