I would like to order the plant growth form factor variables on the x-axis by decreasing slope value rather than alphabetically. I have tried the reorder() function but without success.
slope = c(1.0508194, 0.9406335, 1.1271495, 1.0496251, 0.9874658, 0.9358822, 0.8621570, 1.0403310, 1.0380560, 1.0401669) veg3 <- data.frame(plant_growth_form = as.factor(c("fern", "fern ally", "grass", "herb","herbaceous climber", "herbaceous shrub", "tree sapling", "undet", "woody climber", "woody shrub"))) ggplot(veg3, aes(x = plant_growth_form, y = slope)) + geom_point(cex=2) + xlab("Growth form") + ylab("Slopes") + ylim(0,2) + theme_bw() + theme(panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank()) A reproducible data subset generated with dput() can be found at: How to compute standard errors for predicted data
