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Sorting a data frame by one of the variables

2 messages · Gabor Grothendieck, Leaf Sun

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Try

RSiteSearch("sort data.frame")
?order
RSiteSearch("sort.data.frame")
On 10/16/05, Leaf Sun <leaflovesun at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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Dear all,

I have a date frame like this:

X   Y   Z
22	24	4.3
2.3	3.4	5.3
.....
....
57.2	23.4	34

What my purpose is: to sort the data frame by either X, Y or Z.
sample output is (sorted by X) :

X   Y   Z
2.3  3.4  5.3
.....
......
22 24  4.3
...
57.2  23.4  34

I have no idea how to use sort, order or rank functions. Please help me out.
Thanks!

Leaf