[R] Sort help

[Kevin Wright]

The R wiki also discusses this:
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-frames:sort&s=sort


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Richardson, Patrick
<Patrick.Richardson at vai.org> wrote:
> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/R/faq/sort.htm
>
> A great tutorial about sorting data in R.
>
> HTH,
>
> _____________________________________________
> Patrick Richardson
> Biostatistician - Program of Translational Medicine
> Van Andel Research Institute - Webb Lab
> Grand Rapids, MI  49503
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Rajasekaramya
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:03 PM
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> Subject: [R] Sort help
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>
>  Geneset_name                              #Chromosome  #Hit_in_Biomart
> original_geneset_len  Missing.genes
>  [1,] "AGUIRRE_PANCREAS_CHR12"              "1"         "51"
> "59"                 "8"
>  [3,] "AGUIRRE_PANCREAS_CHR9"               "1"         "24"
> "24"                 "0"
>  [4,] "AGUIRRE_PANCREAS_CHR1"                "1"         "30"
> "31"                 "1"
>  [5,] "AGUIRRE_PANCREAS_CHR18"              "1"         "17"
> "17"                 "0"
>  [6,] "AGUIRRE_PANCREAS_CHR7"               "1"         "35"
> "48"                 "13"
>  [7,] "AGUIRRE_PANCREAS_CHR8"               "1"         "55"
> "61"                 "6"
>
> Above is a dataframe information.
>
> i need to sort the entire dataframe based on the  3rd colum. in decending
> order.
>
> I tried using order
>
> information[order(information[,3])] but it gives me only the ordered first
> coulmn that too i am not sure that it really works.
>
> Kindly let me know with any suggestions.
>
> Regards
> Ramya
>
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