R help - Dec 2011 - Lattice: Setting Conditioning Panel Order in Trellis Plots

I've looked in Deepayan Sarkar's book without finding how to specify the
order of conditioning panels in a trellis plot. Here's the issue I'm
trying
to resolve:

   Sampling locations along a stream channel are not sequentially numbered.
For example, the panel order for one plot (lower left to upper right, 4
panels per row): SC, SC-1, SC-100, SC-139, SC-140, SC-141, SC-145. SC-2,
SC-3, and SC-50. This is normal collation order, while I need numeric order.

   Is there a way for me to specify the panel order so the display is SC,
SC-1, SC-2, SC-3, SC-50, SC-100, SC-139, SC-140, SC-141, SC-145? If so,
please teach me how to do this.

Rich

On 11-12-30 9:56 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>     I've looked in Deepayan Sarkar's book without finding how to
specify the
> order of conditioning panels in a trellis plot. Here's the issue
I'm trying
> to resolve:
>
>     Sampling locations along a stream channel are not sequentially
numbered.
> For example, the panel order for one plot (lower left to upper right, 4
> panels per row): SC, SC-1, SC-100, SC-139, SC-140, SC-141, SC-145. SC-2,
> SC-3, and SC-50. This is normal collation order, while I need numeric
order.
>
>     Is there a way for me to specify the panel order so the display is SC,
> SC-1, SC-2, SC-3, SC-50, SC-100, SC-139, SC-140, SC-141, SC-145? If so,
> please teach me how to do this.
You don't describe the variable holding those labels.  If it is a factor 
with the levels in the desired order then it should display properly. 
To get that, try something like this (simplified to fewer levels, 
because I'm lazy):

# Make up some sample data:
x <- c("SC",  "SC-1", "SC-100",
"SC-2")

# Set the levels in the desired order:

x <- factor(x, levels=c("SC", "SC-1", "SC-2",
"SC-100"))

Duncan Murdoch