How To Add Y Value Average Text To Geom_bar?

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1 How to add y value average text to geom_bar?

Problem Description:

ggplot(aes(x=MALE, y=AMOUNT, fill=MALE)) + geom_bar(stat="summary", fun="mean") +
  ylab("Avg Amount") + theme(axis.title.x = element_blank())

How can I add the y value to the top of the bars given I’ve already created stat=’summary’ & fun=’mean’ when I created the graph?

Solution – 1

To add the y value as label on top of your bars you can do:

geom_text(aes(label = after_stat(y)), stat = "summary", fun = "mean", vjust = -.1)

Using mtcars as example data and with some additional formatting of the label:

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = factor(cyl), y = mpg, fill = factor(cyl))) +
  geom_bar(stat = "summary", fun = "mean") +
  geom_text(aes(label = after_stat(sprintf("%.1f", y))), stat = "summary", fun = "mean", vjust = -.1) +
  ylab("Avg Amount") +
  theme(axis.title.x = element_blank())

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