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Date: 2009-11-16T19:13:49Z
From: Baptiste Auguie
Subject: in excel i can sort my dataset, what do i use in R
In-Reply-To: <26377540.post@talk.nabble.com>
?order
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2009/11/16 frenchcr <frenchcr at btinternet.com>:
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> In excel a handy tool is the sort data by column ...i.e. i can highlight the
> whole dataset and sort it according to a particular column...like sort the
> data in a column in acending or decending order where all the other columns
> change aswell.
>
> I need to do this in R now but dont know how.
>
> ...heres an example...
>
> Say I have dataset...
>
> ? ? ?Header 1 ? ?Header 2 ? ?Header 3
> 1 ? ? ? ? 3 ? ? ? ? ?Working ? ? 12
> 2 ? ? ? ? 4 ? ? ? ? ?Off ? ? ? ? ? ?1
> 3 ? ? ? ? 5 ? ? ? ? ?Works ? ? ? ?2
> 4 ? ? ? ? 2 ? ? ? ? ?Works ? ? ? ?13
> 5 ? ? ? ? 4 ? ? ? ? ?Off ? ? ? ? ? ?5
>
>
> ...and i want to sort the data by putting the values in the third column in
> acending order, like this...
>
> ? ? Header 1 ? ?Header 2 ? ?Header 3
>
> 1 ? ? ? ? 4 ? ? ? ? ?Off ? ? ? ? ? ?1
> 2 ? ? ? ? 5 ? ? ? ? ?Works ? ? ? ?2
> 3 ? ? ? ? 4 ? ? ? ? ?Off ? ? ? ? ? ?5
> 4 ? ? ? ? 3 ? ? ? ? ?Working ? ? 12
> 5 ? ? ? ? 2 ? ? ? ? ?Works ? ? ? ?13
>
> ...although im sorting column three in acending order all the rows shuffle
> so that the parameters in each row stay aligned.
>
>
>
> How do i do this in R?
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