Many thanks for this suggestion. Indeed, "labels" turned out to be a
factor, and after reordering the levels I got the plot I wanted.
Alexey
David Winsemius wrote:
On May 10, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Alexey Bessudnov wrote:
Dear all,
I'm trying to create a dot plot with error bands with
Dotplot(labels ~ Cbind(estimate, lower, upper), data=For.plot)
where estimate, lower and upper are numerical vectors, and labels is
a character vector that contains labels.
The problem is that labels are automatically sorted alphabetically,
and I want them to be sorted by estimate (as in my data frame). This
should be straightforward, but unfortunately being new to R I can't
figure out how to do this. I'll appreciate your guidance.
Have you tried making "labels" (an unfortunate choice for a variable
name, BTW) a factor variable with levels in the order of your desire?
(Also being new to R, you may not recognize the difference between a
factor variable and a character vector, so producing a more explicit
description of the dataframe "For.plot" with the str function ought to
be your next contribution to this thread if the above solution is not
effective.
______________________________________________
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.
