dot-plot_bars: Helper function: plot grouped bar chart

In volker: High-Level Functions for Tabulating, Charting and Reporting Survey Data

Helper function: plot grouped bar chart

Description

Helper function: plot grouped bar chart

Usage

.plot_bars(
  data,
  category = NULL,
  ci = FALSE,
  scale = NULL,
  limits = NULL,
  numbers = NULL,
  orientation = "horizontal",
  base = NULL,
  title = NULL
)

Arguments

data	Data frame with the columns item, value, p, n and optionally w If w is provided, the column width is generated according the w value, resulting in a mosaic plot.
category	Optionally, a category to focus. All rows not matching the category will be filtered out.
ci	Whether to plot error bars for 95% confidence intervals. Provide the columns ci.low and ci.high in data.
scale	Direction of the scale: 0 = no direction for categories, -1 = descending or 1 = ascending values.
numbers	Set to something that evaluates to TRUE and add the .values column to the data frame to ouput values on the bars.
orientation	Whether to show bars (horizontal) or columns (vertical)
base	The plot base as character or NULL.
title	The plot title as character or NULL.

Value

A ggplot object.

volker documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 5:21 p.m.