Thanks for catching that, Sarah. It seems like the problem was that I was using the c() function to combine terms (including W) that I was adding to a data frame.
This caused R to convert the numeric W to a character string. I fixed this by using data.frame() and then rbind() instead of c() and rbind(), which is now giving me the results I was expecting. Thank you very much for your help. Billy -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Sorting-a-data-frame-with-values-of-different-lengths-tp3579653p3580000.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.