Have you tried:
tmp$type= factor(tmp$type, levels = c("c", "b", "a"))
Then try your boxplots.
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:31 PM, li li <hannah....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> Thanks for replying. I actually tried "ordered(tmp$type, levels=c("c",
> "b", "a")."
> But I think only the order of the letters on x axis changed but the order
> of the boxplot did not. So there is some problem there. I also tried
> as.factor(tmp$type); levels(tmp$type)=c("c", "b", "a") and got the same
> thing.
> Thanks.
> Li
>
> 2015-09-14 21:44 GMT-04:00 Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>:
>
> > Make your factor variable deliberately. That is, specify the levels
> > parameter with the values in order when you create the factor.
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> > On September 14, 2015 6:23:50 PM PDT, li li <hannah....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > > I have the following data "tmp" and I want to plot boxplots for
> > >each level of the factor "type" and the order the factor should be c,
> > >b ,a. In other words, the boxplot corresponding to the level "c"
> > >should be the first and so on.
> > >Any suggestions?
> > > Li
> > >
> > >> tmp
> > > result type
> > >1 101 a
> > >2 101 a
> > >3 101 a
> > >4 101 a
> > >5 101 a
> > >6 101 a
> > >7 100 a
> > >8 106 b
> > >9 91 b
> > >10 78 b
> > >11 95 b
> > >12 111 b
> > >13 92 b
> > >14 98 b
> > >15 108 c
> > >16 112 c
> > >17 98 c
> > >18 102 c
> > >19 88 c
> > >20 86 c
> > >21 81 c
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