[R] Sorting problem

[Bill.Venables at csiro.au]

Perhaps BA[, 2] is a factor?  What you might need is something like

BA[order(BA[, 1], -as.numeric(BA[, 2]), ]

?

Bill Venables.
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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jun Shen [jun.shen.ut at gmail.com]
Sent: 28 March 2009 08:26
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Sorting problem

Hi, everyone,

I was trying to sort a data frame by two columns, one increasing, the other
decreasing  and got an error.

"Error in FUN(left) : invalid argument to unary operator",

The command is "BA[order(BA[1],-BA[2]),]". BA is the data frame. It was
working if I used increasing on both columns.

Why the decreasing symbol "-" is not working here? Thanks.

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