[R] Order of boxplots

[Kristina Wolf]

Have you tried:

tmp$type= factor(tmp$type, levels = c("c", "b", "a"))

Then try your boxplots.


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On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:31 PM, li li <hannah.hlx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>   Thanks for replying. I actually tried "ordered(tmp$type, levels=c("c",
> "b", "a")."
> But I think only the order of the letters on x axis changed but the order
> of the boxplot did not. So there is some problem there. I also tried
> as.factor(tmp$type); levels(tmp$type)=c("c", "b", "a") and got the same
> thing.
>     Thanks.
>       Li
>
> 2015-09-14 21:44 GMT-04:00 Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>:
>
> > 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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