sorting data
a <- a[order(a[[4]]),]
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:01 AM, nandan amar <nandan.amar at gmail.com> wrote:
I want to sort my following data set according to value in 4th column ?0 1 0 27877.3044386212 15.8733019973557 2640.42407064348 ?0 1 1 27470.1699006254 35.4182473588807 2303.26461260826 ?0 1 2 27468.0314985496 38.4400363878507 2300.05521684593 ?0 1 3 27469.1130543141 40.7540672493746 2299.32564458085 ?0 1 4 27442.3152643187 52.4342875797706 2277.18286686329 ?0 1 5 27440.7923082136 54.8003481512783 2274.49112409585 ..... I tried following : first i wanted just to sort 4th column
a<-read.tables("file_namr")
attributes(a)
gives class as $class [1] "data.frame" and
sort(a[4])
Error in `[.data.frame`(x, order(x, na.last = na.last, decreasing = decreasing)) : ?undefined columns selected How can I sort the data according to value in 4th column and print along with other columns -- Amar Kumar Nandan Karnataka, India, 560100 ?:+91-9019054471 ?:nandan.amar at gmail.com http://aknandan.co.nr ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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