not ellegant.. but...

vecDF = data.frame(A1=c("C", "A", "B"))
vecDF$A1.order=1:dim(vecDF)
vecDF
dataDF = data.frame(A1 = c("B", "A", "C"), A2 = c(1,2,3))
dataDF2<-merge(vecDF, dataDF,
by=intersect(colnames(vecDF),colnames(dataDF)))
dataDF2
dataDF2.ord<-dataDF2[order(dataDF2$A1.order),]
dataDF2.ord

milton

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Hao Cen <hcen@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have a a vector  and a data frame with two columns
>
> vec = c("C", "A", "B")
>
> dataDF = data.frame(A1 = c("B", "A", "C"), A2 = c(1,2,3))
>
>
>
> I would like to sort the data frame by column A1 such that the order of
> elements in A1 is as the same as in vec.
>
>
>
> After the ordering, the data frame would be
>
> A1           A2
>
> C             3
>
> A             2
>
> B             1
>
>
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Jeff
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