ggplot2: how to plot in reciprocal scale

Question

I want to use ggplot to create scatter plot where y scale to be scaled as 1/y (my y are all positive), yet labeled with original values of y . How can I do this?

I tried to plot with + scale_y_continuous(trans='recip') but got following error:

Error in get(as.character(FUN), mode = "function", envir = envir) :
object 'recip_trans' of mode 'function' was not found

Thanks,

Answer 1

Something like this?

library(ggplot2)
library(scales)

df = data.frame(x = c(1:46), y = seq(500, 5000, 100))

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
   geom_point() +
    scale_y_continuous(trans = reciprocal_trans(), breaks = c(500, 1000, 2000, 5000))