Prevent ggplot2 from automatically ordering x-axis [duplicate]

Answer 1

This could be an option

# Add a column with order, as per your requirement
cons_mergedAll$order = c(1:length(cons_mergedAll$count))

# use the added column to reorder() your data in ggplot
ggplot(cons_mergedAll , aes(reorder(month_yr2, order) ,count, fill=type )) +
geom_bar( stat="identity",position="dodge") +
ylab("Number of Tickets") +
xlab("Month")

Answer 2

It looks like you're trying to use ordered=TRUE to keep the order in the original file. That's not what it does. Instead use levels=... and give it the levels in the order you want.

cons_mergedAll <- cons_mergedAll[order(cons_mergedAll$month_yr),]
cons_mergedAll$month_yr2 <- factor(cons_mergedAll$month_yr2,
                                   levels=unique(cons_mergedAll$month_yr2))