Pyramid Chart

Easily create a pyramid chart

pyramid_chart(
  data,
  x,
  y,
  group,
  bar_colors = c("#1F77B4", "#FF7F0E"),
  sort = "no",
  xlab = NULL,
  title = NULL
)

Arguments

data	Dataset to use for the pyramid chart
x	character or factor column of data
y	numeric column of data
group	character or factor column of data
bar_colors	character vector of length 2 containing colors
sort	character. Should the bars be sorted? By default "no".
xlab	character. X axis label
title	character. Plot title. By default no title is displayed.

Value

An object of class ggplot

Examples

data(popch)

pyramid_chart(popch, age, pop, sex)
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.

## Change bar colors
pyramid_chart(popch, age, pop, sex, bar_colors = c("darkgreen", "darkorange"))
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.

## Change x axis label and add title
pyramid_chart(popch, age, pop, sex, xlab = "Population", title = "Switzerland 2020")
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.
#> Warning: `expand_scale()` is deprecated; use `expansion()` instead.