On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Weidong Gu wrote:

At default,  factors (months) are alphabetically leveled. You can
explicitly re-level months

months<-factor(months,levels=c('Jan','Feb','Mar',...,'Dec'))


> ?Constants
> month.abb
[1] "Jan" "Feb" "Mar" "Apr" "May" "Jun" "Jul" "Aug" "Sep" "Oct" "Nov" "Dec"

No pi in the sky, that!

--
david.

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

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