I have an Excel worksheet with 20 rows.  Using XLConnect I successfully
read the data into 'indata'.  In order to sort it on the 'Item' column
and the 'Price_Per_Item' column I submit:

index <- with(indata, order(Item, Price_Per_Item))
sortedData <- indata[index, ]

The above works fine but now I do not want to name the columns in the
R program directly but pass the names of the columns from a parameter file:

index <- with(indata, order(parameters$ItemColumn,
                            parameters$PriceColumn))
sortedData <- indata[index, ]

This does not work. Only one row appears in 'sortedData'.  I've tried
unlisting the two arguments to 'order' but this does not correct the
problem.

Can anyone suggest a solution to my problem?  Your assistance is
appreciated.

- Barry King

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