[R] help for barchart(lattice)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Erwan BARRET wrote:

> I'd like to plot coefficients from glm result. with barchart,
> coefficients are ordered by the names of factors and I'd like to order
> them by values (or abs(values)).

You need to set up a factor for the grouping you want: the plot order is
along the levels of the grouping factor.  Take a look at the barchart
example for barley: neither year nor site are in alphabetical order.

> to do that, I've ordered the vector of coefficients but it's plotting the
> same thing.

An implicit call to factor will use alphabetical order, so use an explict
one.

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