[R] Partial sort?

[andrew]

I had a similar misunderstanding of using partial in sort() a while
back when I was trying to sort by columns, a la Excel.  In this case,
I ended up using the order() function, eg:

require(stats)
swiss[order(rownames(swiss)), ] #sort by location
swiss[order(swiss$fertility), ] #sort by fertility

Not sure if this helps, as I am attempting to do a mind read based on
ASCII (I get better results using unicode)

Regards,

Andrew

On Jan 15, 10:42 am, Duncan Murdoch <murd... at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> rkevinbur... at charter.net wrote:
> > This is definitely a newbie question but from the documentation I have not been able to figure out what the partial sort option on the sort method does. I have read and re-read the documentation and looked at the examples but for some reason it doesn't register. Would someone attempt to explain what sort with a non-null partial array of indices does?
>
> It guarantees that those particular indices are sorted correctly, but
> doesn't guarantee anything else.  For example,
>
>  > x <- 10:1
>  > sort(x, partial=1)
>
> guarantees that the first entry in x (i.e. 10) is placed correctly, but
> nothing else, and the result is:
>
>  [1]  1  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2 10
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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