Just write a function so that you have a "one-liner" in your script. It will probably be a lot simpler than trying to type some convoluted one-liner.
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Noah Silverman <noahsilver...@ucla.edu> wrote: > Bernard, > > Thanks, but I can't take that shortcut. > > The data is an xts object, and I may not want to order every group. So, I > need a way to just order one group at a time. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Noah Silverman > UCLA Department of Statistics > 8208 Math Sciences Building > Los Angeles, CA 90095 > > On May 12, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Berend Hasselman wrote: > >> >> On 12-05-2012, at 20:04, Noah Silverman wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to order data and subset it at the same time?? >>> >>> >>> >>> I want to sort all the members of group A by their values in column 3. >>> (I'll then do the same for each subsequent group.) This could be done in a >>> loop building up another vector, but I like to avoid loops in R. >>> ------------------------------------- >>> a <- temp[temp$group=="A",] >>> a <- a[order(a[,3]),] >>> temp[temp$group=="A",] <- a >>> ------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Iid like to do this in a single step for each group. However, I can't >>> figure out how to order and subset at the same time. >>> >>> This *does not work* but should illustrate what I'm trying to do >>> >>> temp[temp$group=="A",] <- temp[ temp$group=="A" & >>> order(temp[temp$group=="A",3]) , ] >>> >>> >>> Suggestions? >> >> set.seed(413) >> >> temp <- data.frame(group=rep(c("A","B","C"), rep=5), >> tt=1:15,val=round(runif(15),2), stringsAsFactors=FALSE) >> idx <- order(temp$group,temp$val) >> # or idx <- order(temp[,1],temp[,3]) >> idx >> z2 <- temp[idx,] >> rownames(z2) <- NULL >> z2 >> >> Possible NA's etc. not taken into account. >> >> Berend > > > [[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. -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ 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.