How to call reorder within aes_string of ggplot

Question

I need to reorder a barplot from high to low (left to right) using ggplot & aes_string(). For e.g. for a dataframe df <- f(X,Y,Z) this can be done with

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Answer 1

With the latest version of ggplot, you should be use aes with !! and sym() to turn your strings into symbols.

ggplot(top10, 
  aes(
    x = reorder(!!sym(colnames(top10)[num1]), meanFeat),
    y = meanFeat, 
    fill=!!sym(colnames(top10)[num1]))) +  
  geom_bar(stat="identity")

Answer 2

Since aes_string works with strings, use paste:

ggplot(top10, aes_string(x=paste0("reorder(",colnames(top10)[num1],", -Y)"),y=meanFeat,
 fill=colnames(top10)[num1])) +  geom_bar(stat="identity")