[R] Sorting in R

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Jim Robison-Cox wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Art Salwin wrote:
> 
> > How do you sort one vector using another vector as a sort
> > key?  Sort of equivalent
> > to sorting rows of a spreadsheet using one of its columns as
> > key.  Here's a simple example:


> > Having secondary keys to break ties would be nice, as would
> > the ability to sort (in this example)
> > all 3 vectors at once.
> 
>  That's a bit harder,  I would sort first on the secondary column, then
> the primary.  Or tertiary - secondary - primary.

If you look at the doucmentation for order() you will find that it allows
secondary and tertiary keys. There's even an example.


	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle



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