# Groupedbar plotting not as expected

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**Created:** [March 4, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/groupedbar-plotting-not-as-expected/95545 "2023-03-04T15:28:49Z")\
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> [@StatPlots groupedbar order x axis](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/statplots-groupedbar-order-x-axis/13912/18):
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> Hi, so I just figured out how to do it after a lot of digging. The issue is that in RecipesPipeline.jl there is group\_labels = sort(collect(unique(v))) Now in theory there are CategoricalArrays for this purpose, however unique(ctg::CategoricalArray) returns an ordinary Vector{String} instead of a new CategoricalArray. Defining this solves the problem in this case function Base.unique(ctg::CategoricalArray) l = levels(ctg) newctg = CategoricalArray(l) levels!(newctg, l) end c…

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