Taking the example from: ?ranef fm1 <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + (Days|Subject), sleepstudy) rr1 <- ranef(fm1, postVar = TRUE) dotplot(rr1,scales = list(x = list(relation = 'free')))[["Subject"]] How would I need to modify dotplot() to have "Subject" sorted for "Days", rather than "(Intercept)"? Thanks in advance. Reinhold Kliegl