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

Another option using the forcats package.

ggplot(df, aes(x = distanceRemaining, y = forcats::fct_rev(factor(position))))

This has the advantage of keeping everything in the ggplot call, and playing nicely with other options such as coord_flip and facets_wrap(..., scales = "free")