hi knut

may be:

treatment<-factor(treatment)
plot(...)

cheers
milton
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Knut Helge Jensen <knut.jen...@bio.uib.no>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have the following problem that I beleive is a bug:
>
> I have a dataframe with one categorical and one numerical vector. The
> categorical vector has three levels (uc, up and vc). A plot of the vectors
> with the categorical vector on the x-axis gives a boxplot with three boxes -
> exactly as expected.
>
> If I then use the subset function to make a dataset that only includes two
> of the levels of the categorical vector and do the plot again, all three
> levels are still shown on the x-axis even though one of them doesn't exist
> in the dataset. The plot shows correct number of boxes (2).
>
> The whole syntax for what I describe is as follows:
> exploration.df <- read.table('clipboard', header=T)
> attach(exploration.df)
> plot(treatment,total.escapes)
>
> exp.df <- subset(exploration.df, treatment!='up')
> attach(exp.df)
> plot(treatment, total.escapes)
>
> I use R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26) for Debian.
>
> Knut Helge Jensen
>
>
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