[R] sort a data frame by a vector

[Hao Cen]

Thanks to all who replied. Issue solved

Jeff

On Wed, December 2, 2009 12:52 am, Don MacQueen wrote:
> This looks like a job for match().
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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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>> dataDF[match(dataDF$A1,vec),]
> A1 A2
> 3  C  3
> 2  A  2
> 1  B  1
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> -Don
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> At 10:36 PM -0500 12/1/09, Hao Cen wrote:
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>> 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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