[R] Months in alphabetical order rather than chronological order in graph

[Greg Snow]

This would be easier if you showed us a sample of your data and what commands you are using.  Without we need to guess.

Probably your month variable is being turned into a factor somewhere and the default for factors is alphabetical.  The best solution depends on how/where/when your months are being factorized.  You need to control the factorizing, maybe turning them into some type of date object instead of a factor, or create the factor, but specify the order that you want.

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


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> Greetings
>      Though I have months in chronological order in my data table, the
> data
> were sampled every other month (i.e., February, April, June, August,
> October, December), every time I try to plot them (on the x-axis) they
> are
> plotted in alphabetical order.  What am I missing?
> Cheers
> Kurt
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