Thanks Hadley that worked.
Chris

On 6/29/09 11:05 AM, hadley wickham wrote:
> In that case, try:
>
> qplot(reorder(factor(model),delta),delta,data=growthm.bic)
>
> Deepayan: do you think there should also be a numeric method for reorder?
>
> Hadley
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Christopher
> Desjardins<cddesjardins@gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> Hi Hadley,
>> Thanks for the reply and the great graphing package. That code is giving me
>> the following error:
>>
>>      
>>> qplot(reorder(model,delta),delta,data=growthm.bic)
>>>        
>> Error in UseMethod("reorder") : no applicable method for "reorder"
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>> On 6/28/09 8:21 PM, hadley wickham wrote:
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>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> qplot(reorder(model, delta), delta, data = growthm.bic)
>>
>> Hadley
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Christopher
>> Desjardins<cddesjardins@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I have 45 models that I have named: 1, 2, 3, ... , 45 and I am trying to
>> plot them in order of ascending BIC values. I am however unclear as to how I
>> can get the models to line up on the x-axis by BIC and not by numeric order.
>> For example, if model 5 has a lower BIC than 1, I want it to be the first
>> point on the left hand side of the curve. This seems to work in plot:
>>
>> plot(1:45, growthm.bic$delta, type="b", xaxt = "n", xlab="Model",
>> ylab=expression(Delta[k]))   # where growthm.bic$delta is my BIC value
>> axis(1, at=1:45, labels=growthm.bic$Model) #where model is the name of the
>> 45 models examined, i.e 1:45
>>
>> Currently using qplot I have this which doesn't not work as it arranges the
>> BIC values in order from 1:45.
>>
>> qplot(model,delta,data=growthm.bic)
>>
>> Thanks. Also please cc me as I am a digest subscriber.
>> Chris
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