Hello,

I tried to manipulate the order of boxplots using the "reorder" below and
worked.

However, please kindly advise how to specify the colors of each boxplot
(bird group),
like red, green, and blue, from the left to the right.
Thanks again.

code
 bwplot(GE_distance~OF, data=dataN,
    index.cond  =  function(x,  y)  mean(y),
    xlab=list("Taxonomy  group", cex = 1.6),
    prepanel = function(x,  y)  {
        list(xlim = levels(reorder(x,  y)))
    },
    panel = function(x, y,  ...)  {
        panel.bwplot(reorder(x, y),y,   ...)
    })

data

migration distance (km)    bird group

10987                                      Charadriiformes

9867                                        Charadriiformes

8702                                        Charadriiformes

9432                                        Charadriiformes

9054                                        Charadriiformes

5087                                       Falconiiformes

5783                                       Falconiiformes

5298                                        Falconiiformes

5687                                       Falconiiformes

3987                                        Gruiformes

3298                                        Gruiformes

3567                                        Gruiformes

3409                                        Gruiformes

3321                                        Gruiformes

3598                                        Gruiformes



On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Ben Bolker <bbolker@gmail.com> wrote:

> Elaine Kuo <elaine.kuo.tw <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I am using lattice bwplot to draw migration distance of three groups of
> > birds.
> >
> > The boxplots from the left to right is displayed
> > in alphabetic order of the boxplot names, as the default setting.
> >
> > However, I would like the boxplots from the left to right to be displayed
> > according to the migration distance from the short values to the long
> ones.
> >
> > In the data below, from the left to the right should be Gruiformes,
> > Falconiiformes, and Charadriiformes.
> >
> > Please kindly advise how to modify the code below.
> >
>
>  Define the order of the levels of your factor
> accordingly. Take a look at
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15033107/
>   specifing-order-of-lattice-plot-panels
>
> (broken URL to meet gmane line length limits)
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