Hi there, You can add a order column on x or y and after use this field to order z. Like
z<-z[order(z$orderfield),] To generate a order on x or y you can do something like x$xorder<-1:nrow(x) cheers milton On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 2:26 PM, <utkarsh.sing...@global-analytics.com>wrote: > > Hi All, > I want to "merge" two datasets by column "ID" and I don't want the result > to > be sorted by "ID". I am doing the following: > > z = merge(x, y, by = "ID", sort=F) > The result is not sorted by "ID". But (as oppose to what I expected) it > is > not even in the original order of either "x" or "y". > Can somebody tell what to do if I wanted it to be in the original order > of > x. > > P.S.: As my dataset is very huge and I couldn't find the right subset of > the > data which explains the above problem, so I can't attach it at the > moment. > If anybody knows the answer, please reply; or else I will try to get the > right subset. > > Thanks in advance > > Utkarsh > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
