[R] sorting a dataframe

Bogdan Tanasa tanasa at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 20:03:49 CEST 2015


Thank you all again. It works with :

library("gtools")
dat[mixedorder(A),]

considering :

A = c("A1","A10","A11","A2")
B = c(1,2,3,4)
 dat = data.frame(A,B


On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Diego:
>
> Nonsense! Look at the results of your code -- you have failed to order
> the results as had been requested by the OP. It's also unnecessarily
> complicated. The following suffices (where I have used regular
> expressions rather substring() to get the numeric part of the strings
> -- **assuming** that the strings always consist of letters followed by
> numeric digits).
>
> > A = c("A1","A10","A11","A2")
> >  B = c(1,2,3,4)
> >  dat = data.frame(A,B)
> >
> > numbs <- as.numeric(gsub("[^[:digit:]]+","",dat$A))
> > newdat <- dat[order(numbs),]
> > newdat
>     A B
> 1  A1 1
> 4  A2 4
> 2 A10 2
> 3 A11 3
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
>
>
> Bert Gunter
>
> "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
> is certainly not wisdom."
>    -- Clifford Stoll
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Diego Miro <d.miro1089 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Bogdan,
> >
> > Follow my suggestion.
> >
> > letter <- substring(A, 1, 1)
> > number <- substring(A, 2, nchar(A))
> > new.data <- paste0(letter, formatC(as.numeric(number), width = 2, flag =
> > "0"))
> > Em 20/06/2015 21:21, "Bogdan Tanasa" <tanasa at gmail.com> escreveu:
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I am looking for a suggestion please regarding sorting a dataframe with
> >> alphanumerical components :
> >>
> >> let's assume we have :
> >>
> >> A = c("A1","A10","A11","A2")
> >> B = c(1,2,3,4)
> >>
> >> C = data.frame(A,B)
> >>
> >> how could I sort C data.frame in such a way that we have at the end :
> >>
> >> C$A in the order : "A1", "A2", "A10", "A11". thank you very much,
> >>
> >> -- bogdan
> >>
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