[R] Syntax for order()

[Sarah Goslee]

dat1[order(dat1$val), ]

unless you used attach(dat1).


Sarah

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:36 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
> Has there been a change in the syntax for order() or am I just making some stupid mistake here?
>
> dat1 <-read.table(text="
> name val
> Alex 4
> Jim 10
> Fred 8
> Julie 44
> ",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
> dat1[order(val), ]  # Gives Error in order(val) : object 'val' not found
>
> dat1[order(dat1[,2]), ] # Works just fine.
>
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>

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