Flip cartesian coordinates so that horizontal becomes vertical, and vertical, horizontal. This is primarily useful for converting geoms and statistics which display y conditional on x, to x conditional on y.

coord_flip(xlim = NULL, ylim = NULL, expand = TRUE)

## Arguments

xlim Limits for the x and y axes. Limits for the x and y axes. If TRUE, the default, adds a small expansion factor to the limits to ensure that data and axes don't overlap. If FALSE, limits are taken exactly from the data or xlim/ylim.

## Examples

# Very useful for creating boxplots, and other interval
# geoms in the horizontal instead of vertical position.

ggplot(diamonds, aes(cut, price)) +
geom_boxplot() +
coord_flip()
h <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(carat)) +
geom_histogram()
h#> stat_bin() using bins = 30. Pick better value with binwidth.h + coord_flip()#> stat_bin() using bins = 30. Pick better value with binwidth.h + coord_flip() + scale_x_reverse()#> stat_bin() using bins = 30. Pick better value with binwidth.
# You can also use it to flip line and area plots:
df <- data.frame(x = 1:5, y = (1:5) ^ 2)
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_area()last_plot() + coord_flip()