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).

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.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Allison

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