Peter, Thanks, that did it!
Tim Tim Clark Department of Zoology University of Hawaii --- On Wed, 9/30/09, Peter Ehlers <ehl...@ucalgary.ca> wrote: > From: Peter Ehlers <ehl...@ucalgary.ca> > Subject: Re: [R] bwplot scales in alphabetical order > To: "Tim Clark" <mudiver1...@yahoo.com> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 2:43 AM > Tim, > > Add the argument as.table=TRUE to your call: > > bwplot(y~x|id, horizontal=FALSE, as.table=TRUE) > > Peter Ehlers > > Tim Clark wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > I know this has been covered before, but I don't seem > to be able to get it right. I am constructing a > boxplot in lattice and can't get the scales in the correct > alphebetical order. I have already read that this is > due to the way factors are treated, and I have to redefine > the levels of the factors. However, I have > failed. As a simple example: > > > > library(lattice) > > id<-rep(letters[1:9], each=20) > > x<-rep(seq(1:10),each=18) > > y<-rnorm(180,50,20) > > > > #Reverse alphebetical order > > bwplot(y~x|id, horizontal=FALSE) > > > > #alphebetical order reading right to left > > id<-factor(id,levels = > sort(id,decreasing = TRUE)) > > bwplot(y~x|id, horizontal=FALSE) > > > > It appears that bwplot plots scales from the bottom > left to the top right. If so my factor levels would need to > be levels=c(7,8,9,4,5,6,1,2,3). I tried that but can't seem > to get the factor function to work. > > > > #Did not work! > > > id<-factor(id,levels=c(7,8,9,4,5,6,1,2,3),lables=letters[1:9]) > > > > Your help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > Tim Clark > > Department of Zoology University of Hawaii > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > ______________________________________________ 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.
