Leaf,
using your example data as 'dat' below --
dat<-read.table("clipboard",header=T)
dat
X Y Z
1 22.0 24.0 4.3
2 2.3 3.4 5.3
3 57.2 23.4 34.0
#to order the data frame by say X (for column 1)--
dat1<-dat[order(dat[,1]),]
dat1
X Y Z
2 2.3 3.4 5.3
1 22.0 24.0 4.3
3 57.2 23.4 34.0
--------------------------------------------
By way of interest if you wanted to order EVERY column
in ascending order then you could do a loop ---
# to order all cols of dat by rows (ascending)
dat2<-dat
for (i in 1:3) dat2[,i]<-dat[order(dat[,i]),i]
dat2
X Y Z
1 2.3 3.4 4.3
2 22.0 23.4 5.3
3 57.2 24.0 34.0
------------------------------------------------
I hope that helps,
John
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"Leaf Sun" wrote---
Dear all,
I have a date frame like this:
X Y Z
22 24 4.3
2.3 3.4 5.3
.....
....
57.2 23.4 34
What my purpose is: to sort the data frame by either X, Y or Z.
sample output is (sorted by X) :
X Y Z
2.3 3.4 5.3
.....
......
22 24 4.3
...
57.2 23.4 34
I have no idea how to use sort, order or rank functions. Please help me out.
Thanks!
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