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Shasha
Shasha

Reputation: 1

Is there a function in R to reduce the number of zeros of a percentage in the y axis of a bar chart?

I wrote the code

ggplot(data = summary_datas) + 
  geom_bar(mapping = aes(x=member_casual,fill=member_casual)) + 
  labs(title = "Rider Membership data", subtitle= "Difference in the amount of registered riders based on category") + 
  theme(plot.title.position = "plot",plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5)) + 
  theme(plot.subtitle = element_text(hjust = 0.5)) + 
  scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

to create a bar chart in R with percentage values in the y-axis but my percentage is in thousands e.g. (10 000%, 20 000%) instead of tens. Please someone should help me out.

I tried using the ylim function but it didn't work

Upvotes: -1

Views: 44

Answers (1)

Captain Hat
Captain Hat

Reputation: 3247

This is happening because the percent() family of functions are designed to convert proportions (of 1) into percentages.

For example

library(scales)

label_percent()(1)
#> "100%"

label_percent()(.5)
#> "50%"

label_percent()(100)
#> "10 000%"

In order to get sensible labels you'll need to make sure that you're passing proportions to you scale function, rather than pre-formatted percentages.

Upvotes: 1

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