How to add label to the bar plot using geom_text()

Question

I am trying to put label in my plot I am getting error:

    ggplot(aes(x = factor(Pclass), fill = factor(Survived)), data = train) +
    geom_bar(color = "black", width = 0.30) +
    xlab("People Class") +
    ylab("Count")+
    geom_text(aes(label = factor(Survived)))

  Error: geom_text requires the following missing aesthetics: y

How can I add label without using y aesthetics or please correct if I am doing wrong. I am using Titanic train.csv data set Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster

Setting `stat = "identity"` in `geom_bar` requires a y aesthestic. As you don't have (and don't need) one, simply remove `stat = "identity"`. — ottlngr, Mar 27 '17 at 06:46
Put the label inside first aes `ggplot(aes(..., label = factor(Survived))) + ... + geom_text()` — zx8754, Mar 27 '17 at 06:57
Sorry I was not using stat = "identity" in the code. By mistake I placed it here @ottlngr — Shubham Rajput, Mar 27 '17 at 07:54
@zx8754 I have tried that one also but still the same error. — Shubham Rajput, Mar 27 '17 at 08:11
Then please provide data, so we can reproduce your error. Also, the error message is not complete, paste it in full. — zx8754, Mar 27 '17 at 08:12
Maybe try `ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill = factor(gear))) + geom_bar() + stat_count(aes(label = ..count..), geom = "text")` ? — zx8754, Mar 27 '17 at 09:47
See this post as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29869862 — zx8754, Mar 27 '17 at 09:48
Unfortunately that data link requires registration. Hopefully this is the same data, freely-available: https://github.com/pcsanwald/kaggle-titanic/blob/master/train.csv — neilfws, Mar 27 '17 at 10:00
Also: it's not clear what label you would like to add. Is it the total count of survived/not survived for each class? — neilfws, Mar 27 '17 at 10:08
@neilfws The registration at kaggle is also free and I want to label count. — Shubham Rajput, Mar 27 '17 at 16:34
@ShubhamRajput yes but you should not expect users to have to create accounts elsewhere in order to answer questions. — neilfws, Mar 27 '17 at 20:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '17 at 17:21

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Maybe try

ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), fill = factor(gear))) +
geom_bar() + 
stat_count(aes(label = ..count..), geom = "text")

answered Mar 27 '17 at 17:21

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 26 '20 at 17:05

The selected answer is correct, but I think this is more consistent with the formatting you are using:

ggplot(aes(x = factor(Pclass), fill = factor(Survived)), data = train) +
  geom_bar(color = "black", width = 0.30) +
  xlab("People Class") +
  ylab("Count") +
  geom_text(aes(label=..count..), stat='count')

How to add label to the bar plot using geom_text()

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