Flipped 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.
Examples
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()