[R] Boxplot orders

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Weidong Gu wrote:

> At default,  factors (months) are alphabetically leveled. You can
> explicitly re-level months
>
> months<-factor(months,levels=c('Jan','Feb','Mar',...,'Dec'))
>

 > ?Constants
 > month.abb
  [1] "Jan" "Feb" "Mar" "Apr" "May" "Jun" "Jul" "Aug" "Sep" "Oct"  
"Nov" "Dec"

No pi in the sky, that!

-- 
david.

> Then it should work.
>
> Weidong Gu
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Phoebe Jekielek  
> <phoebejek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have length data of an organism over the year and I want to make a
>> boxplot. I get the boxplot just fine but the months are all out of  
>> order. In
>> the data set they are in order from Jan-Dec...how can I fix this  
>> problem?
>>
>> Thanks so much in advance!!
>>
>> Phoebe
>>
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David Winsemius, MD
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