[R] How to swap and rearrange rows?

[Richard.Cotton at hsl.gov.uk]

> How to swap and rearrange the row so that I will have
> Jan-Dec in order?
> > est31
>             p0 est.alpha est.beta  est.rate
> Jan  0.8802867 0.7321440 7.241757 0.1380880
> Mar  0.8598566 0.7096567 7.376367 0.1355681
> May  0.6204301 0.8657272 6.036106 0.1656697
> July 0.5032258 0.9928488 4.027408 0.2482986
> Aug  0.5322581 0.9625738 4.103121 0.2437169
> Oct  0.6792115 0.8526226 5.105218 0.1958780
> Dec  0.8397849 0.7490287 7.070349 0.1414357
> > est30
>             p0 est.alpha est.beta  est.rate
> Apr  0.7296296 0.7929348 6.303877 0.1586325
> Jun  0.5574074 0.8588608 5.695905 0.1755647
> Sept 0.6066667 0.9031150 4.594891 0.2176330
> Nov  0.7725926 0.7600906 5.636366 0.1774193
> > est28
>           p0 est.alpha est.beta  est.rate
> Feb 0.877262 0.6567584 8.708051 0.1148363
> Thank you so much.

First, concatenate the data frames:
est <- cbind(est31, est30, est28)

Now you can sort the resulting data frame using order, as described in FAQ 
on R 7.23.
months <- factor(rownames(est), levels=c("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", 
"May", "Jun", "July", "Aug", "Sept", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"))
sortedest <- est[order(months),]

(You might also want to recode 'July' to 'Jul' and 'Sept' to 'Sep' to be 
consistent with the other months.)

Regards,
Richie.

Mathematical Sciences Unit
HSL


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