Reverse order of discrete y axis in ggplot2

Question

Situation & data

I have a dataframe df of athlete positions in a race (I\'ve already melted it for use with ggpl

Answer 1

For a discrete axis, using reorder() worked for me. In context of the above problem, it would look something like this:

ggplot(df, aes(x = distanceRemaining, y = reorder(position, desc(position))))

Hope this helps.