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In this SO answer, user @Crops shows how to add a legend to a ggalt::geom_dumbbell plot. Very nice.

library(ggalt)



df <- data.frame(trt=LETTERS[1:5], l=c(20, 40, 10, 30, 50), r=c(70, 50, 30, 60, 80))

df2 = tidyr::gather(df, group, value, -trt)



ggplot(df, aes(y = trt)) + 

     geom_point(data = df2, aes(x = value, color = group), size = 3) +

     geom_dumbbell(aes(x = l, xend = r), size=3, color="#e3e2e1", 

                   colour_x = "red", colour_xend = "blue",

                   dot_guide=TRUE, dot_guide_size=0.25) +

     theme_bw() +

     scale_color_manual(name = "", values = c("red", "blue") )

I want to sort trt descending on r. I tried replacing y = trt with y = reorder(trt, r), but I get an error that object r is not found.

Here is a way where we reorder the factor levels of trt in df and df2 before we plot.

# reorder factor levels

df$trt <- reorder(df$trt, df$r)

df2$trt <- factor(df2$trt, levels = levels(df$trt))



ggplot(df, aes(y = trt)) + 

  geom_point(data = df2, aes(x = value, color = group), size = 3) +

  geom_dumbbell(aes(x = l, xend = r), size=3, color="#e3e2e1", 

                colour_x = "red", colour_xend = "blue",

                dot_guide=TRUE, dot_guide_size=0.25) +

  theme_bw() +

  scale_color_manual(name = "", values = c("red", "blue") )