[R] Replace number with month

[Peter Dalgaard]

Don MacQueen wrote:
> You can get the names using
>
>    month.name[MM]
>
>
> And it may be necessary to use
>
>      factor(month.name[MM], levels=month.name[1:12])
>
> to get them to show up in the correct order in the barchart.
>   

You're crossing the creek to fetch water there, and getting yourself
soaked in the process... (by an unnecessary conversion to character
which is subject to alphabetical sorting)

I think the canonical way is

factor(MM, levels=1:12, labels=month.name)

(and the levels=1:12 may not even be necessary when all 12 months are
present)

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