A radial bar chart is basically a bar chart plotted in polar coordinates instead of a Cartesian plane.
Here is one showing the quantity of weapons exported by the top 6 largest exporters in 2017. (You can read more about this story here).
# Libraries
library(tidyverse)
library(hrbrthemes)
# Load dataset from github
data <- read.table("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holtzy/data_to_viz/master/Example_dataset/7_OneCatOneNum.csv", header=TRUE, sep=",")
# plot
data %>%
filter(!is.na(Value)) %>%
arrange(Value) %>%
tail(6) %>%
mutate(Country=factor(Country, Country)) %>%
ggplot( aes(x=Country, y=Value) ) +
geom_bar(fill="#69b3a2", stat="identity") +
geom_text(hjust = 1, size = 3, aes( y = 0, label = paste(Country," "))) +
theme_ipsum() +
theme(
panel.grid.minor.y = element_blank(),
panel.grid.major.y = element_blank(),
legend.position="none",
axis.text = element_blank()
) +
xlab("") +
ylab("") +
coord_polar(theta = "y") +
ylim(0,15000)