This sounds suspiciously like homework (which is off-topic... see the Posting Guide), and you haven't indicated how you plan to encode your poker hands, and most core features of other languages are possible in R so if you really understand these other techniques and R then you should be able to do this already.
If this is not homework, then please show your work so far instead of showing a completely different example. On December 14, 2023 12:00:12 AM PST, "Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen" <traxpla...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > > I need to sort a data.frame based on a custom sorting function. > It is easy in many languages but I can't find a way to do it in R. > > In many cases I could just use an ordered factor but my data.frame >contains poker hands and >I need to rank these hands. I already got a function that compares two hands. > >Here is a MRE (Minimal, Reproducible Example): > > >df <- data.frame(person = c("Alice", "Bob", "Charlie"), value = >c("Medium", "Small", "Large")) > ># 0 means equal, -1 means left before right, 1 means right before left >custom_sort <- function(left, right) { > if (left == right) return(0) > if (left == "Small") return(-1) > if (left == "Medium" & right == "Large") return(-1) > return(1) >} > ># sort df according to custom_soft ># expect output is a data.frame: ># name size ># 1 Bob Medium ># 2 Alice Small ># 3 Charlie Large > >In this simple case I can just use an ordered factor but what about >the poker hands situation? > >Regards >Martin > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.