[R] function order

[Philipp Pagel]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:35:32AM +0100, Yan Jiao wrote:
> abc<-cbind(c(1,6,2),c(2,5,3),c(3,2,1))## matrix I want to sort
> 
> if I do
> abc[ order(abc[,3]), increasing = TRUE]

Jim already pointed out that the argument needs to go inside the
parenthes of the order function. In addition, order has an argument
called 'decreasing', but none called 'inceasing'. Finally, you are
lacking a comma in your subsetting of the matrix:

> abc[ order(abc[,3], decreasing=F)]
[1] 2 6 1

But you probably mean:

> abc[ order(abc[,3], decreasing=F), ]
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    2    3    1
[2,]    6    5    2
[3,]    1    2    3

cu
	Philipp


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