Hi, You can also use:
within(small,{order(value)}) # file.name value #1 /storage/storage0/59Off.Rtable 0.2203863 #3 /storage/storage0/5912314ff.Rtable 0.2886594 #2 /storage/storage0/5912On.Rtable 0.4052370 A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Berend Hasselman <b...@xs4all.nl> To: Alaios <ala...@yahoo.com> Cc: R help <R-help@r-project.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [R] Sort or Permutate On 11-09-2012, at 13:13, Alaios wrote: > Dear all, > I am having a struct that contains on the first column file names and on the > second column a number which is a "rating" of the file on first column > > A small subset looks like that > > small > [,1] > > > [1,] "/storage/storage0/59Off.Rtable" > [2,] "/storage/storage0/5912On.Rtable" > [3,] "/storage/storage0/5912314ff.Rtable" > [,2] > [1,] "0.220386301811093" > [2,] "0.405237035258638" > [3,] "0.288659374128626" > > > I want based on the values of column two to rearrange table elements by > keeping though the row elements together. > For example if I order those in ascending order should look like > > small > > [,1] > > > [1,] "/storage/storage0/59Off.Rtable" > [2,] "/storage/storage0/5912314ff.Rtable" > [3,] " /storage/storage0/5912On.Rtable" > > [,2] > [1,] "0.220386301811093" > [2,] "0.288659374128626" > [3,] "0.405237035258638" > > I have tried with sort, sort.list and order but I have failed . > I do not quite undestand how one can complete this task in R. > Could you please spend some time helping me? Please provide data using dput. You can do it using order() like this small <- data.frame(file.name=c( "/storage/storage0/59Off.Rtable", "/storage/storage0/5912On.Rtable", "/storage/storage0/5912314ff.Rtable"), stringsAsFactors=FALSE, value=c( 0.220386301811093, 0.405237035258638, 0.288659374128626) ) v.index <- order(small[,"value"]) small <- small[v.index,] small Berend ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.