[R] Sort a data frame

[Wolski]

Hi

Lets assign your data frame to the variable yourdf
then:

yourdf[ , order( yourdf$year ) ]

should sort it.

For decreasing increasing sorting
see 
?order

Sincerely Eryk.



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On 20.07.2004 at 09:51 Luis Rideau Cruz wrote:

>Hi all 
>
>I have the next data frame 
>
>    year   STOD    SLAGNR  TAL TALT   TALVEKT
>1 2002  2120006     57      1      NA      1
>2 1997  97030032    57     NA   NA      NA
>3 1997  97030071    27     1      NA      NA
>4 1997  97030005    57     1      NA      NA
>5 1997  97020127    60     NA   1         NA
>6 2001  1160025     27      1      NA      1
>7 1998  98020069    60     1      NA      NA
>8 1996  96030009    57     NA   1         NA
>
>How to sort it according to "year" column
>Sort does seem to work only on vectors
>
>Thank you
>
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