Legend ordering in ggplot2

Question

I created the following graph in R using ggplot2. As you can see, the order in the legend is not exactly what it should be: I would like to have \"

Answer 1

It's changing names into a factor variable and using alphabetical order by default

use

df$names <- factor(df$names, levels = c("1 year","4 years","15 years","25 years","40 years"))

Answer 2

You could use fct_inorder from the forcats package to turn the names vector into an ordered factor in your desired "1 year, 4 years", etc sequence:

library(forcats)
names = fct_inorder(c(names1,names2,names3,names4,names5))