[R] Row order in plot

Peter Alspach PAlspach at hortresearch.co.nz
Thu Dec 11 22:36:35 CET 2008


Tena koe

Try

mice$X <- factor(mice$X, levels=mice$X)
plot(Green.1~X,data=mice)

HTH ....

Peter Alspach

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 9:12 a.m.
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> Subject: Re: [R] Row order in plot
> 
> 
> This is the format of the table as it appears in R
> 
> >mice
> 
>           X  Green.1  Yellow.2     Blue.3      Gray.4
> 1   Base   469.5399  508.1532  487.1443  492.2544
> 2    PBS   459.6553  474.0124  417.2651  392.9518
> 3 25 Mch  359.6216  418.0417  377.7020  394.2102
> 4 50 Mch  206.1835  262.8818  252.8041  172.0568
> 5   Ext.   287.4200   279.8562  287.3744  236.5091
> 
> I have been plotting Green.1 vs X as follows
> 
> plot(Green.1~X,data=mice)
> 
> The order on the x axis is alphabetical e.g 25 Mch, 50 Mch, 
> Base, Ext., PBS
> 
> When I would like it to be : Base, PBS, 25 Mch, 50 Mch, Ext. 
> like in the table.
> 
> 
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