The multcompView has some useful features but I'm sure this isn't intentional. Excuse the size. This is about the smallest reproducible example I can do:
require("multcompView") > mm <- structure(list(TempNom = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 5L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L), .Label = c("15", "18", "21", "22", "24", "27"), class = "factor"), Days = c(14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 16L, 16L, 16L, 17L, 17L, 17L, 17L, 17L, 18L, 18L, 18L, 18L, 19L, 19L, 19L, 19L, 20L, 20L, 20L, 20L, 21L, 21L, 21L, 21L, 21L, 22L, 23L, 23L, 25L, 25L, 26L, 26L, 27L, 27L, 27L, 28L, 10L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 16L, 16L, 17L, 17L, 17L, 17L, 18L, 18L, 18L, 18L, 18L, 18L, 19L, 20L, 20L, 20L, 20L, 21L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 13L, 13L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 15L, 15L, 16L, 16L, 17L, 17L, 17L, 18L, 20L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 13L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 15L, 16L, 16L, 17L, 17L, 18L, 18L, 18L, 19L, 19L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 11L, 11L, 11L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 13L, 14L, 14L, 14L, 15L, 16L, 16L, 17L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 8L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 9L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 12L, 13L, 13L, 16L)), class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame" ), row.names = c(NA, -343L), .Names = c("TempNom", "Days")) > mm.aov <- aov(Days ~ TempNom, data = mm) > model.tables(mm.aov, "means") Tables of means Grand mean 12.74052 TempNom 15 18 21 22 24 27 18.4 14.87 11.22 11.92 10.27 9.095 rep 57.0 55.00 65.00 72.00 52.00 42.000 > multcompLetters(TukeyHSD(mm.aov)$TempNom[,4]) 18 21 22 24 27 15 "a" "bc" "b" "cd" "d" "e" > Something is clearly wrong with letter "e" for TempNom = 15. Theory1: First, I tried reordering the output by name, but that results in "e" for the longest (i.e. 15) and "a" for the runner-up. Theory2: Then I tried assuming the letters were correct and in the correct order but were labelled incorrectly. If I put the output into a dataframe, it's easier to see what we have. > TT <- data.frame(T = c(model.tables(mm.aov, "means")[[1]]$TempNom)) > TT$Group <- multcompLetters(TukeyHSD(mm.aov)$TempNom[,4])$ monospacedLetters[rownames(TT)]# (sorted a la Theory1) > TT$GroupA <- multcompLetters(TukeyHSD(mm.aov)$TempNom[,4])$ monospacedLetters # (unsorted a la Theory2) > TT T Group GroupA 15 18.403509 e a 18 14.872727 a bc 21 11.215385 bc b 22 11.916667 b cd 24 10.269231 cd d 27 9.095238 d e > In this example, it appears GroupA (Theory2) makes more sense. However, in larger examples, that approach can result in two values in separate groups even though there's less than 0.1% difference between them and sustantial standard error. In those cases (too large to show here) it makes more sense to modify the Group column by changing the "e" to "a" and moving the other letters along by 1. The code for the multcompLetters function is nicely commented but before I launch into checking it for bugs, I thought it prudent to ask if anyone else had encountered anything similar. Or am I simply asking too much of an unbalanced data set? > sessionInfo() R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] grid grDevices utils stats graphics methods base other attached packages: [1] dplyr_0.3.0.2 multcompView_0.1-5 lattice_0.20-29 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] assertthat_0.1 DBI_0.3.1 lazyeval_0.1.9 magrittr_1.0.1 parallel_3.1.1 [6] Rcpp_0.11.3 tools_3.1.1 > TIA -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. PS: the problem existed without dplyr and DBI ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.