On 10/19/07, Allison Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just learning to work with R, and am having some difficulty controlling > the output of my dotplot. > > The default order of the function dotchart seems to be the largest value on > the bottom and the smallest on the top. I wanted it in the opposite order > (which is how my data frame is currently sorted), so I used the following > approach, which works > > orderidx <- order(b2000$RR) > dotchart(b2000$RR[orderidx], labels = b2000$CNAME[orderidx],cex=0.5,xlab = > "Proportion of Annual Catch, 2000") > > However, the default behavior of the dotplot function (within the lattice > library) seems to be to order the data in reverse alphabetical order (A on > the bottom, Z on the top). Can someone provide suggestions for controlling > this order? I would either prefer largest value (top) to smallest value > (bottom) or alphabetical order (A top, Z bottom). >
Use 'as.table=TRUE', as Jim suggested. > In addition, is there a way to control the labeling of each subplot? When I > use the following code: > > dotplot(CNAME ~ RR | RYEAR, data = btwlSubset, xlab = "% of annual catch ") > > each subplot gets labeled with the word "RYEAR", rather than the value > contained within the RYEAR column, which is what I would like. > That will happen by default if RYEAR is a numeric variable, and the ``levels'' are shown if the variable is a factor. So the easiest fix is dotplot(CNAME ~ RR | factor(RYEAR), <...> ) -Deepayan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
