[R] Order in barchart

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I think you misunderstand what barchart does.  It expects a formula, not a 
named vector, as its first argument.

nm <- names(T3)
z <- factor(nm, levels=nm)
barchart(z ~ T3, xlab="Mean Values", col="dark blue")

is probably what you are looking for.  The factor z is constructed to be 
in the order you want.

That barchart() accepts a named vector appears to be undocumented.  For an 
unnamed vector it does not behave similarly to barplot().


On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Bliese, Paul D MAJ USAMH wrote:

> Sorry if this is a FAQ -- I checked the archives and help files, but was
> stumped.
> 
> In the data T3 (provided below) the values are sorted from lowest to
> highest.
> 
> > T3
>       10        7       19       13        5        3       15       18
> 2       24 
> 2.650568 2.666237 2.731649 2.749221 2.777130 2.801124 2.804472 2.813891
> 2.838316 2.839654 
>       36       20       25       32       26       12       14       29
> 23        6 
> 2.843043 2.868335 2.882906 2.896539 2.922535 2.931397 2.939590 2.944353
> 2.983473 3.015235 
>       39        4       17        9       30       21       33       22
> 8       35 
> 3.017590 3.020495 3.038758 3.066808 3.084511 3.086072 3.106873 3.127783
> 3.167053 3.173310 
>       28       16       37        1       31       40       27       11
> 34       38 
> 3.173323 3.221106 3.236643 3.274417 3.274772 3.283696 3.307872 3.355327
> 3.382744 3.498301 
> 
> 
> If I use barchart in the trellis library, the bars are arranged by factor
> order of the labels (1,10,11,12,etc.).
> 
> > barchart(T3,xlab="Mean Values",col="dark blue")
> 
> Would it be possible to have the bars arranged from highest to lowest in
> terms of the values (2.65, 2.66, 2.73, etc.) as it is done in barplot?
> 
> >barplot(T3,xlab="Mean Values",col="dark blue",horiz=T,cex.names=.5)
> 
> I would like to use barchart instead of barplot because of some of the
> additional features of the lattice library.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
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