[R] Order of boxplots

[li li]

Thank you! That worked.


2015-09-15 2:50 GMT-04:00 peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>:

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> > On 15 Sep 2015, at 04:31 , li li <hannah.hlx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jeff,
> >  Thanks for replying. I actually tried "ordered(tmp$type, levels=c("c",
> > "b", "a")."
> > But I think only the order of the letters on x axis changed but the order
>
> You _think_ ??? Documentation, please...
>
> The boxplots certainly move if I do
>
> plot(result ~ type, tmp)
> plot(result ~ factor(type, levels=c("c","b","a")), tmp)
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> > of the boxplot did not. So there is some problem there. I also tried
> > as.factor(tmp$type); levels(tmp$type)=c("c", "b", "a") and got the same
>
> That changes the level _names_: 1st group name becomes "c" instead of "a";
> you want the 3rd group to become the 1st but still be called "c".
>
> -pd
>
>
> > thing.
> >    Thanks.
> >      Li
> >
> > 2015-09-14 21:44 GMT-04:00 Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>:
> >
> >> Make your factor variable deliberately. That is, specify the levels
> >> parameter with the values in order when you create the factor.
> >>
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> >> On September 14, 2015 6:23:50 PM PDT, li li <hannah.hlx at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> I have the following data "tmp" and I want to plot  boxplots for
> >>> each level of the factor "type" and the order the factor should be c,
> >>> b ,a. In other words, the boxplot corresponding to the level "c"
> >>> should be the first and so on.
> >>> Any suggestions?
> >>>  Li
> >>>
> >>>> tmp
> >>>  result type
> >>> 1     101    a
> >>> 2     101    a
> >>> 3     101    a
> >>> 4     101    a
> >>> 5     101    a
> >>> 6     101    a
> >>> 7     100    a
> >>> 8     106    b
> >>> 9      91    b
> >>> 10     78    b
> >>> 11     95    b
> >>> 12    111    b
> >>> 13     92    b
> >>> 14     98    b
> >>> 15    108    c
> >>> 16    112    c
> >>> 17     98    c
> >>> 18    102    c
> >>> 19     88    c
> >>> 20     86    c
> >>> 21     81    c
> >>>
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