## The likert function would work well for this example. ## Continuing from your example
## install.packages("HH") ## if necessary library(HH) likert(Family ~ Normal+Tumour+Metastasis, data = df, main = "likert, data-order, ReferenceZero=0\nDuplicates your example", ReferenceZero=0, as.table=FALSE, xlab = expression(bold("Number of species")), ylab = expression(bold("Families")), auto.key = list(space = "top", columns=3), col = COLS) likert(Family ~ Normal+Tumour+Metastasis, data = df, main = "likert, positive.order=TRUE, ReferenceZero=0\nThis is what you asked for", positive.order=TRUE, ReferenceZero=0, xlab = expression(bold("Number of species")), ylab = expression(bold("Families")), auto.key = list(space = "top", columns=3), col = COLS) likert(Family ~ Normal+Tumour+Metastasis, data = df, main = "likert, positive.order=TRUE, ReferenceZero=1.5\nThis puts Normal on left and not-Normal on right", positive.order=TRUE, ReferenceZero=1.5, xlab = expression(bold("Number of species")), ylab = expression(bold("Families")), auto.key = list(space = "top", columns=3), col = COLS) ## For information on the likert function ?likert ## For more examples demo("likert-paper", package="HH") ## for the paper, open http://www.jstatsoft.org/v57/i05/ ## and click on ## Download PDF On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 8:32 AM Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.lu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > I am plotting some values with lattice barchart: the y-axis is > automatically ordered alphabetically; is it possible to order the > entries by number, so that the 'larger' histograms would be at the top > of the plot? > This is a working example > > ``` > library(lattice) > Family = c("Adenoviridae", "Baculoviridae", "Herpesviridae", "Mimiviridae", > "Myoviridae", "Pandoraviridae", "Phycodnaviridae", "Podoviridae", > "Polydnaviridae", "Retroviridae", "Siphoviridae", "Unassigned") > Normal = c(7, 15, 24, 8, 65, 24, 17, 16, 8, 15, 49 , 9) > Tumour =c( 17, 75, 94, 14, 242, 28, 41, 69, 12, 11, 305, 51) > Metastasis =c(41, 66, 95, 3, 173, 22, 33, 101, 12, 12, 552, 57) > df = data.frame(Family, Normal, Tumour, Metastasis, stringsAsFactors = FALSE) > COLS = c("darkolivegreen3", "brown3", "darkorchid3") > barchart(Family ~ Normal+Tumour+Metastasis, data = df, stack = TRUE, > xlim=c(1,1000), > main = "Alphabetical order", > xlab = expression(bold("Number of species")), > ylab = expression(bold("Families")), > auto.key = list(space = "top", columns=3), > par.settings = list(superpose.polygon = list(col = COLS))) > ``` > > > -- > Best regards, > Luigi > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.