[R] Adding SORT to UNIQUE

[Jeff Newmiller]

What is wrong with

as.data.frame(lapply( Data, sort, decreasing = TRUE ))

?


On December 20, 2021 8:58:48 AM PST, "Stephen H. Dawson, DSL via R-help" <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>Running a simple syntax set to review entries in dataframe columns. Here 
>is the working code.
>
>Data <- read.csv("./input/Source.csv", header=T)
>describe(Data)
>summary(Data)
>unique(Data[1])
>unique(Data[2])
>unique(Data[3])
>unique(Data[4])
>
>I would like to add sort the unique entries. The data in the various 
>columns are not defined as numbers, but also text. I realize 1 and 10 
>will not sort properly, as the column is not defined as a number, but 
>want to see what I have in the columns viewed as sorted.
>
>QUESTION
>What is the best process to sort unique output, please?
>
>
>Thanks.

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