Hi there, I have length data of an organism over the year and I want to make a boxplot. I get the boxplot just fine but the months are all out of order. In the data set they are in order from Jan-Dec...how can I fix this problem? Thanks so much in advance!! Phoebe [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
At default, factors (months) are alphabetically leveled. You can
explicitly re-level months
months<-factor(months,levels=c('Jan','Feb','Mar',...,'Dec'))
Then it should work.
Weidong Gu
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Phoebe Jekielek <phoebejek at gmail.com>
wrote:> Hi there,
>
> I have length data of an organism over the year and I want to make a
> boxplot. I get the boxplot just fine but the months are all out of order.
In
> the data set they are in order from Jan-Dec...how can I fix this problem?
>
> Thanks so much in advance!!
>
> Phoebe
>
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Hi> > Hi there, > > I have length data of an organism over the year and I want to make a > boxplot. I get the boxplot just fine but the months are all out oforder. In> the data set they are in order from Jan-Dec...how can I fix thisproblem? Probably months are either character or factor values. If they are factor type you can easily change their ordering. factor(month.factor.variable, levels= vector of properly ordered months) Regards Petr> > Thanks so much in advance!! > > Phoebe > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.