Dear Angelo, What about this?
mydata=read.table(textConnection("Name Sex Age Fred M 24 John M 18 Mary F 21"), header=TRUE,sep="") mydata[order(mydata$Age),] HTH, Jorge On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Angelo Scozzarella < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to sort a matrix by a specific variable without changing the row > binding between variables. > > Ex. > > Name Sex Age > Fred M 24 > John M 18 > Mary F 21 > > > ordered by Age > > > Name Sex Age > John M 18 > Mary F 21 > Fred M 24 > > > > Thanks > > > > Angelo > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.