Hello, I tried to manipulate the order of boxplots using the "reorder" below and worked.
However, please kindly advise how to specify the colors of each boxplot (bird group), like red, green, and blue, from the left to the right. Thanks again. code bwplot(GE_distance~OF, data=dataN, index.cond = function(x, y) mean(y), xlab=list("Taxonomy group", cex = 1.6), prepanel = function(x, y) { list(xlim = levels(reorder(x, y))) }, panel = function(x, y, ...) { panel.bwplot(reorder(x, y),y, ...) }) data migration distance (km) bird group 10987 Charadriiformes 9867 Charadriiformes 8702 Charadriiformes 9432 Charadriiformes 9054 Charadriiformes 5087 Falconiiformes 5783 Falconiiformes 5298 Falconiiformes 5687 Falconiiformes 3987 Gruiformes 3298 Gruiformes 3567 Gruiformes 3409 Gruiformes 3321 Gruiformes 3598 Gruiformes On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Elaine Kuo <elaine.kuo.tw <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Hello > > > > I am using lattice bwplot to draw migration distance of three groups of > > birds. > > > > The boxplots from the left to right is displayed > > in alphabetic order of the boxplot names, as the default setting. > > > > However, I would like the boxplots from the left to right to be displayed > > according to the migration distance from the short values to the long > ones. > > > > In the data below, from the left to the right should be Gruiformes, > > Falconiiformes, and Charadriiformes. > > > > Please kindly advise how to modify the code below. > > > > Define the order of the levels of your factor > accordingly. Take a look at > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15033107/ > specifing-order-of-lattice-plot-panels > > (broken URL to meet gmane line length limits) > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.