Create Bar Plot with Positive and Negative Values in R

To create bar plot with positive and negative values, we can make use of ggplot function.

For example, if we have a data frame called df that contains a categorical column say C and a numerical column Num which has some positive and some negative values then the bar plot for this data can be created by using the below command −

ggplot(df,aes(C,Num))+geom_bar(stat="identity")

Example

Following snippet creates a sample data frame −

Category<-c("Egypt","Sudan","Turkey","Indonesia")
Response_Score<-c(10,-2,4,-5)
df<-data.frame(Category,Response_Score)
df

Output

The following dataframe is created −

  Category  Response_Score
1  Egypt      10
2  Sudan      -2
3  Turkey      4
4  Indonesia  -5

To load ggplot2 package and create bar chart for data stored in df, add the following code to the above snippet −

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(df,aes(Category,Response_Score))+geom_bar(stat="identity")

Output

If you execute all the above given snippets as a single program, it generates the following output −