[R] sort a data frame by a vector

[Don MacQueen]

This looks like a job for match().

>  vec = c("C", "A", "B")
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>  dataDF = data.frame(A1 = c("B", "A", "C"), A2 = c(1,2,3))
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>  dataDF[match(dataDF$A1,vec),]
   A1 A2
3  C  3
2  A  2
1  B  1

-Don


At 10:36 PM -0500 12/1/09, Hao Cen wrote:
>Hi,
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>I have a a vector  and a data frame with two columns
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>vec = c("C", "A", "B")
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>dataDF = data.frame(A1 = c("B", "A", "C"), A2 = c(1,2,3))
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>I would like to sort the data frame by column A1 such that the order of
>elements in A1 is as the same as in vec.
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>After the ordering, the data frame would be
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>A1           A2
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>C             3
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>A             2
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>B             1
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>Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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>Thanks in advance
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>Jeff
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