Reorder() not correctly reordering a factor variable in ggplot

Question

I\'m baffled as to why the boxplots are not ordering in this plot:

set.seed(200)
x <- data.frame(country=c(rep(\'UK\', 10), 
                          rep         


        

Answer 1

Because you did not make it an ordered factor. Try

ggplot(x, aes(reorder(country, wing, median, order=TRUE), wing)) + geom_boxplot()