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Message-ID: <432E362C.3020208@epm.net.co>
Date: 2005-09-19T03:53:16Z
From: Kenneth Cabrera
Subject: How to sort data sets?
In-Reply-To: <432E2C8A.4030405@pdf.com>

If you want to sort a data frame according a variable, the use it like

datfram[order(datfram$var),]

to sort all the data.frame, not just a variable

Spencer Graves wrote:

>?order
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>Martin Lam wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I was wondering if someone know how to sort a data set
>>by column.
>>I've tried sort() but without luck. I would think
>>there should be a function for it somewhere. An
>>example with the iris data set would be appreciated.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Martin
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