On Nov 7, 2010, at 10:35 PM, rent0...@umn.edu wrote:

Hello. First post, though I have read scores. Mostly i can solve my problems reading the archives, but I lack the vocabulary to ask this one right. Any social faux pais, I apologize.

I am sure this is a very basic question and I am embarrassed to ask, but I spent several hours scouring the archives and trying various suggestions, but I am too new to get any of them to work.

I am trying to generate an xyplot (or bwplot) for a presentation on Tuesday. As part of my dissertation I have 3 treatments divided into 2 time periods (before and after treatment).

Code that works (stripped of labels) is:

xyplot(veg$litter_depth ~ veg$status | veg$treatment, layout=c(3,1), type=c("p","r"))

Status is "before" and "after" In essence I am plotting a change in litter depth (and about 50 other variables) over time for each of the treatments. This generates a graph with 3 separate plots, one for each treatment. The plot works, but after is on the left and before on the right. This bugs me.

I tried:
veg$status2 <- reorder(veg$status, new.order=
but get:
Error in length(X) : 'X' is missing

To make this leass ambiguous you could have posted str(veg). Try (perhaps):

veg$status <- factor(vec$status, levels=c(c("before", "after"))

Then plot as before.

--
David.

I also tried:
h <- xyplot(litter.cover ~ status | treatment, relevel(status, ref=c("before", "after")), data = veg)

but get:
Error in relevel(status, ref = c("before", "after")) : object 'status' not found

I have noticed that folks request data, but I hope my question is basic enough without it.

Please be gentle and thank you in advance,

Mike.


--
Michael S. Rentz
PhD Candidate, Conservation Biology

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

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