[R] Outputting csv file from dataframe with columns in a particular order

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Thanks to all who responded.

On Jan 12, 10:34 am, Peter Ehlers <ehl... at ucalgary.ca> wrote:
> On 2011-01-12 07:16, analys... at hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > I have a dataframe with columns "ID",'date","estimate","actual" (but
> > not necessarily in that order - I do a merge somewhere and that
> > somehow messes up the order of the columns).
>
> > How can I output it to a csv file with the columns in the order that I
> > want?
>
> Let's say that your data.frame is DF.
> mynames <- c("ID", "date", "estimate", "actual")
> write.csv(DF[, mynames], ....)
>
> Peter Ehlers
>
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