Adding text labels to ggplot2 Bar Chart - R-bloggers Adding labels to a bar graph of counts rather than values is a common case. ggplot(data, aes(x = factor(x), fill = factor(x))) + geom_bar() + geom_text(aes(label = ..count..), stat = "count", vjust = 1.5, colour = "white") Approach 2 Another option is to summarise the data frame using the table function in R, which is a straightforward process.