Thank you, that gives me exactly what I need.
One option is to set the order in newfile: newfile$ApptCategory <- factor(newfile$ApptCategory, levels=c('New','Established')) Of course, this will then affect the order for other things associated with ApptCategory, but that is probably what you want. HTH ....... Peter Alspach > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tubin > Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2008 6:40 a.m. > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] ordering a factor in boxplot output > > > I'm sure I'm missing something obvious in the documentation... > > I'm generating a boxplot > boxplot(CleanValue~ApptCategory*ReportingCode,data=newfile) > where ApptCategory is a factor with possible values > ("New","Established") > > Problem is, the output orders those factors alphabetically, > and I'd really rather see New come first. I'm apparently > confused by the "reorder" function because somehow my > attempts to apply it have resulted in reversing the labelling > (so now the established boxes are labelled as new). > > What am I missing? Thanks. > -- > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ordering-a-factor-in-boxplot-output-tp16989073p16993285.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.