On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Greg Snow <greg.s...@imail.org> wrote: > Suggestion: use the power of R. > > If x and y are independent then sorting y based on x is meaningless. > > If sorting y based on x is meaningful, then they are not independent. > > Trying to force non-independent things to pretend that they are independent > just causes future headaches. > > Part of the great power of R is the ability to group things together that > should be grouped. The wise learn this and use it (in some cases (mine) that > wisdom comes at the expense of not having properly grouped in the past).
Yes, this is an excellent suggestion. My workspace used to be like a rock pile that my poor brain had to dig through, trying to remember some truly awful combinations of capitalizations, '.' , '_' , and numerals from my vain efforts to organize variables. Dataframes (and lists for those pesky variables with irregular lengths) were the rake that brought peace and tranquility to the rock garden of my workspace. Josh > Learn the power of with/within, data= arguments, and apply style functions, > then you will be eager to combine things into data frames (or lists or ...) > when appropriate. > > <<descend from soapbox>> > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > Statistical Data Center > Intermountain Healthcare > greg.s...@imail.org > 801.408.8111 ______________________________________________ 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.
