On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:31 -0400, jim holtman wrote: > THe problem is that when you read the data in, 'month' was converted to a > factor. Try the following to get it converted to a factor, but in the order > you want for processing:
That doesn't need to be a problem, an alternative that works with this feature is: > tmp <- read.table("Temp_JIRI_data.txt", sep = "\t", na.strings = "DNA", header = TRUE) > tmp <- within(tmp, month <- factor(month, levels = month.name)) > plot(X1999 ~ month, data = tmp) We can leave it as a factor when being read in, and then relevel it easily by "converting" it to a factor and specifying the levels using the in-built constant/vector 'month.name'. G > > x <- read.table(yourFile, ..., as.is=TRUE, na.strings="DNA") # prevent > conversion to factor > x$month <- factor(x$month, levels=x$month) > > This will create the factor levels in the order you want. > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:32 PM, ms.com <logi...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Dear all > > i got a problem in monthly mean temperature. here i am attaching the data > > set as well as the plot i got with the following command > > plot(month,type='n') > > plot(month,X1999) > > > > this command gave the plot where the month names are in alphabetic order, i > > want the plot in monthly sequence > > could you please suggest me how can i solve my problem? > > > > thanking you > > > > regard > > madan > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC thats right for you. > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ 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.