[R] SORTING Arrays by index value

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

acc.gp.bl.wtmn[sort.list(row.names(acc.gp.bl.wtmn)), ]

I am not clear how you missed order/sort.list, which have examples like 
this.  It's referenced off ?sort.  Indeed, sort() can be used too.

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Mark G Orr wrote:

> Hello, I'm somewhat new to R.  I've searched the archive for the last year
> and tried to consult the manual pages for the following problem, but did
> not find an answer.
> 
> I want to sort an array by the index values.  Here is the array
> 
> >acc.gp.bl.wtmn
>         Gp17       Gp4
> 1  0.5703125 0.6406250
> 10 0.7812500 0.7109375
> 11 0.8046875 0.7343750
> 12 0.8359375 0.7890625
> 13 0.8515625 0.7109375
> 14 0.8281250 0.7343750
> 15 0.8671875 0.7812500
> 16 0.8125000 0.7578125
> 17 0.7734375 0.7500000
> 18 0.8000000 0.7800000
> 19 0.8700000 0.7300000
> 2  0.8046875 0.7265625
> 20 0.8300000 0.7400000
> 21 0.7500000 0.8000000
> 22 0.7700000 0.7600000
> 23 0.8200000 0.7800000
> 24 0.7600000 0.7400000
> 25 0.8100000 0.8000000
> 3  0.7578125 0.7812500
> 4  0.8203125 0.7890625
> 5  0.7890625 0.7421875
> 6  0.7265625 0.7812500
> 7  0.8125000 0.7421875
> 8  0.8515625 0.7265625
> 9  0.8203125 0.6953125
> 
> My question is:  How do I sort by the first index (the values are 1:25)
> without losing the associated values per index value for the two
> columns(Gp17 and Gp4).  I want ascending order (1:25) of the index values.

I think the `first column' is the row names.

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