horizontal bar chart using coord_flip()

Is it possible to make a horizontal bar chart? In R I would make a regular bar chart and use coord_flip() but that doesn’t seem to be working. Am I doing something incorrectly or has this not yet been implemented?

This gives me a regular bar chart

discovery_time = pd.DataFrame(col.aggregate({'$project':{'unit':'$timeline.discovery.unit'}})['result'])
p = ggplot(discovery_time, aes('unit'))
p + geom_bar(stat="identity",fill="steelblue")

I’m trying to do this

discovery_time = pd.DataFrame(col.aggregate({'$project':{'unit':'$timeline.discovery.unit'}})['result'])
p = ggplot(discovery_time, aes('unit'))
p + geom_bar(stat="identity",fill="steelblue") + coord_flip()

[damaha]

It would really be awesome if coord_flip would be implemented! I want to do a vertical lineplot because my y-axis variable is related to altitude, this is more intuitive than connecting points along the x-axis.

Do anyone know if there is a hack to do this? like inverting the underlying matplotlib axis object that ggplot uses or something.

[jankatins]

+coord_flip() is interesting because it would also flip other thingies (in most case it would probably simply switch x and y mappings, but not in case of bars. There are also other coord_* functions…