[R] My simple ORDER is broken

[William Dunlap]

Show us the output of
   str(tmp_df)
Your problem could be caused by the Democratic column being
a character or factor column instead of a numeric column:
"71" > "227" but 71 < 227.
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Jim Burke <javajimburke at gmail.com> wrote:
> tmp_df[order(tmp_df$Democratic),]
>    Precinct Last.Name Democratic Republican.Total Registered.Voters
> 2      2904 Open Seat          1                0                15
> NA     2903 Open Seat        227              245              2035
> 3      2905 Open Seat         71              202               497
>
>
> tmp_df[order(tmp_df[3]),]
>    Precinct Last.Name Democratic Republican.Total Registered.Voters
> 2      2904 Open Seat          1                0                15
> NA     2903 Open Seat        227              245              2035
> 3      2905 Open Seat         71              202               497
>
>> tmp_df$Democratic[order(tmp_df$Democratic)]
> [1] "1"   "227" "71"
>
> What am I doing wrong? I would like the order below. I suspect the problem
> lies with that NA to the left that R inserted somewhere along the line. So
> how to reorder dataframe rows? Or get rid of that NA?
> 2      2904 Open Seat          1                0                15
> 3      2905 Open Seat         71              202               497
> NA     2903 Open Seat        227              245              2035
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Burke
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