Sorting problem
Bill.Venables at csiro.au wrote:
Perhaps BA[, 2] is a factor? What you might need is something like BA[order(BA[, 1], -as.numeric(BA[, 2]), ]
More generally, the xtfrm() function converts a vector into a numeric one that sorts in the same order. It will work on character columns as well: BA[order(BA[, 1], -xtfrm(BA[,2]), ] Duncan Murdoch
? Bill Venables.
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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jun Shen [jun.shen.ut at gmail.com]
Sent: 28 March 2009 08:26
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Sorting problem
Hi, everyone,
I was trying to sort a data frame by two columns, one increasing, the other
decreasing and got an error.
"Error in FUN(left) : invalid argument to unary operator",
The command is "BA[order(BA[1],-BA[2]),]". BA is the data frame. It was
working if I used increasing on both columns.
Why the decreasing symbol "-" is not working here? Thanks.
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