[R] Order of boxplots

[Jeff Newmiller]

Make your factor variable deliberately. That is, specify the levels parameter with the values in order when you create the factor.
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On September 14, 2015 6:23:50 PM PDT, li li <hannah.hlx at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>  I have the following data "tmp" and I want to plot  boxplots for
>each level of the factor "type" and the order the factor should be c,
>b ,a. In other words, the boxplot corresponding to the level "c"
>should be the first and so on.
>Any suggestions?
>   Li
>
>> tmp
>   result type
>1     101    a
>2     101    a
>3     101    a
>4     101    a
>5     101    a
>6     101    a
>7     100    a
>8     106    b
>9      91    b
>10     78    b
>11     95    b
>12    111    b
>13     92    b
>14     98    b
>15    108    c
>16    112    c
>17     98    c
>18    102    c
>19     88    c
>20     86    c
>21     81    c
>
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