[R] passing arguments to a function problem

[Gabor Grothendieck]

See orderBy in the doBy package.

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Jiří Voller <jirivoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R-users,
> is there some way how to pass various colnames to the following code for
> sorting data.frames?
>
> mydf.ordered<-with(mydf, mydf[order(colname1,colname2, colnameX, decreasing
> = TRUE), ])
>
>
>
> I was trying something like
>
> Afunction<-function (mydf,colnames,decreasing=T){
>
>     mydf.ordered<-with(mydf, mydf[order(colnames, decreasing = decreasing),
> ])
>
>  }
>
> but it didnt work
> please help
> thank you
>
>
> Jiri Voller
>
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