[R] sort a list?

[jim holtman]

Exactly what were your expections from sorting the list?  What did you
expect the answer to look like?  You can 'unlist' the list and then
sort the elements:

> x[["A"]] <- 1:10
> x[["B"]] <- 4:12
> sort(unlist(x))
 A1  A2  A3  A4  B1  A5  B2  A6  B3  A7  B4  A8  B5  A9  B6 A10  B7  B8  B9
  1   2   3   4   4   5   5   6   6   7   7   8   8   9   9  10  10  11  12
>

Is this what you want?

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:28 PM,  <rkevinburton at charter.net> wrote:
> I am trying to sort a list and the data is obiously not in the right format. I am trying:
>
> x <- list()
> x[["A"]] <- 1
> x[["B"]] <- 2
>
> order(x)
>
> But am getting:
>
> Error in order(x) : unimplemented type 'list' in 'orderVector1'
>
> How should I change the list so that it can be sorted? What kinds of objects (classes of objects) can be sorted?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kevin
>
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Jim Holtman
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?