At default, factors (months) are alphabetically leveled. You can explicitly re-level months
months<-factor(months,levels=c('Jan','Feb','Mar',...,'Dec')) Then it should work. Weidong Gu On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Phoebe Jekielek <phoebe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have length data of an organism over the year and I want to make a > boxplot. I get the boxplot just fine but the months are all out of order. In > the data set they are in order from Jan-Dec...how can I fix this problem? > > Thanks so much in advance!! > > Phoebe > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.