[Rd] reorder [stats] and reorder.factor [lattice]

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Summary: I have just put a version in stats as supplied by Deepayan.  It
is more or less the same as that in Trellis (there never was one in
lattice AFAIK), except that the result is by default only ordered if the
input was, and the `scores' used to do the ordering are returned. (Both 
points I raised in earlier discussions.)

Package gregmisc has a different function of that name which appears to be
more related to relevel and levels<-.

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Martin Maechler wrote:

> >>>>> "DeepS" == Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan at stat.wisc.edu>
> >>>>>     on Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:54:52 -0500 writes:
> 
>     DeepS> Before it's too late for R 2.0.0, do we have a final decision yet on 
>     DeepS> having a reorder method for "factor" in stats?
> 
> Since the thread is quite a bit old, (and I have been in vacation back then),
> could you summarize what you think about it?
> 
> When skimming through the thread I got the impression that, yes,
> it was worth to "centralize" such a method in 'stats' rather
> than have different slightly incompatible versions in different
> other packages.
> This is of tangential interest to me as I have been slightly
> involved with reorder.dendrogram()
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
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