That solved it!
Thank you very much!
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Christian Hennig wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> order(x,y,z) returns a permutation to order x, ties broken by y, remaining
>> ties broken by z. (And so on.)
>>
>> What I'd like to do is
>> order(X), where X is a matrix (or a list or data frame if necessary) of
>> unspecified size, which orders X[,1], ties broken by X[,2], remaining ties
>> broken by X[,3] and so on - without having to know and to write down how
>> many columns X has.
>>
>> Any ideas how to achieve that?
>
> For a list or data frame, do.call("order", X).
> For a matrix, do.call("order", split(A, col(A))).
>
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> Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>
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