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Ordering List Items Chronologically

3 messages · Simon Kiss, William Dunlap, Sarah Goslee

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Dear colleagues,
Is there a way to order list items by date? I have a series of surveys in a list where the name of each list item is the date the survey was taken but the list items are out of order.  Each data frame has a variable in it with the survey date as well, if that helps.
Yours, Simon Kiss
#Sample Data
mylist<-list('1991-01-01'=data.frame(a=rep(5,5), survey.date=rep(as.Date('1991-01-01', format='%Y-%m-%d'))), '1979-01-01'=data.frame(aa=rep(5,5), survey.date=rep(as.Date('1979-01-01', format='%Y-%m-%d'), 5)), '2001-01-01'=data.frame(c=rep(6,5), survey.date=rep(as.Date('2001-01-01', format='%Y-%m-%d'), 5)))
mylist
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o <- order(as.Date(names(mylist)))
myListInDateOrder <- mylist[o]

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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As long as all your names of list elements are in the same format,
this should do it:

 mylist[order(names(mylist))]

Thanks for the reproducible example,
Sarah
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Simon Kiss <sjkiss at gmail.com> wrote:
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Sarah Goslee
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