[R] Controlling Order of Panels in Lattice Trellis Plots

Bert Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Sat Feb 23 02:14:24 CET 2013


As you appear not to know, or at least have not stated, **what** you
want to do, how can you expect anyone to tell you **how** to do it?

Cheers,
Bert

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Bert Gunter wrote:
>
>> You do not need to use ordered factors.
>> newfac <- factor(oldfac, lev= ...) ## will do it. e.g.
>>
>>> x <- factor(letters[1:3]) ## default ordering is alphabetic (mod locale)
>>> x
>>
>> [1] a b c
>> Levels: a b c
>>>
>>> y <- factor(x,lev=letters[3:1])  ## reorder the levels
>>> y
>>
>> [1] a b c
>> Levels: c b a
>
>
> Bert,
>
>   Makes sense. I wonder if this will work when only a portion of the site
> IDs need to be explicitly ordered. There are 64 sites in all. Might be
> easier to sort the text file.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Rich
>
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