根据中值对盒子图进行排序

时间:2010-09-22 02:39:49

标签: r boxplot

我想用R来制作一系列按中值排序的箱形图。假设我执行:

boxplot(cost ~ type)

这会给我一些箱形图,成本显示在y轴上,类型类别在x轴上可见:

-----     -----
  |         |
 [ ]        |
  |        [ ]
  |         |
-----     -----
  A         B

然而,我想要的是从最高到最低中值排序的箱线图。我怀疑的是,我需要做的是更改类型(A或B)的标签,以数字方式指示哪个是最低和最高的中值,但我想知道是否有更聪明的方法来解决问题。

3 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:48)

结帐?reorder。这个例子似乎是你想要的,但是以相反的顺序排序。我在下面的第一行更改了-count,按照您想要的顺序排序。

  bymedian <- with(InsectSprays, reorder(spray, -count, median))
  boxplot(count ~ bymedian, data = InsectSprays,
          xlab = "Type of spray", ylab = "Insect count",
          main = "InsectSprays data", varwidth = TRUE,
          col = "lightgray")

答案 1 :(得分:12)

是的,这就是想法:

> set.seed(42)                     # fix seed       
> DF <- data.frame(type=sample(LETTERS[1:5], 100, replace=TRUE), 
+                  cost=rnorm(100)) 
>
> boxplot(cost ~ type, data=DF)    # not ordered by median
>
> # compute index of ordered 'cost factor' and reassign          
> oind <- order(as.numeric(by(DF$cost, DF$type, median)))    
> DF$type <- ordered(DF$type, levels=levels(DF$type)[oind])   
>
> boxplot(cost ~ type, data=DF)    # now it is ordered by median

答案 2 :(得分:0)

小心缺少值,您必须添加na.rm = TRUE才能正常工作。如果没有,代码根本不起作用。花了我几个小时才找到了。

  bymedian <- with(InsectSprays, reorder(spray, -count, median, **na.rm = TRUE**)
  boxplot(count ~ bymedian, data = InsectSprays,
          xlab = "Type of spray", ylab = "Insect count",
          main = "InsectSprays data", varwidth = TRUE,
          col = "lightgray")