Sumitrajit Dhar
2006-Jun-29 13:40 UTC
[R] boxplot of subset of factors, in an order of my choice
Hi Folks, Say I am working with the following data set: testResults: stud test score 1 1 fTest 43 2 1 rTest 39 3 1 gTest 43 4 2 fTest 23 5 2 rTest 33 6 2 gTest 41 . . . N n gTest 47 I would like to generate a boxplot of rTest only. Here is what I have done after reading the data in and attaching the object. test <- factor(test) Now when I try boxplot(score ~ test, subset = test=="rTest") 1. I still see the tick marks for the other factors on the x-axis although no data are plotted. Can I eliminate these extra markers (and the space for these faactors) and just have the tick marker and the label for "rTest"? 2. I would also like to be able to rearrange the tests as they appear from left to right on the graph. I read the hints and help about reorder.factor but it does not seem to be the solution in this case. I am wanting to re-order the boxes without any logic (statistical anyways). Can this be done? Thanks in advance, Sumit