order of stacked bars in ggplot

Question

I am trying to figure out diverging stacked bar charts made in ggplot. I followed an example posted here. Everything works out, except the order of the stacked bars on the

Answer 1

You need to fix the order of your fill variable (color) by adding these two lines (before ggplot):

  my.lows$color <- factor(my.lows$color, levels = my.colors, ordered = TRUE)
  my.highs$color <- factor(my.highs$color, levels = rev(my.colors), ordered = TRUE)

Then the plot looks like this: