This is exactly what I wanted! Thank you so much!
Z > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:21:43 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [R] sort a data matrix by all the values and keep the names > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi: there might be a quicker way but you can use stack and order. stack > creates a dataframe with 2 columns, values and ind, with ind > being the associate columns. > > order(temp$values) creates the indices of the ordered values so you > index by that to make it sorted. > > temp <- stack(x) > print(temp) > print(str(temp)) > > sortedx <- temp[order(temp$values),] > print(sortedx) > > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:54 PM, zhihuali wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > If I have a data frame x<-data.frame(x1=c(1,7),x2=c(4,6),x3=c(8,2)): > > x1 x2 x3 > > 1 4 8 > > 7 6 2 > > > > I want to sort the whole data and get this: > > x1 1 > > x3 2 > > x2 4 > > x2 6 > > x1 7 > > x3 8 > > > > If I do sort(X), R reports: > > Error in order(list(x1 = c(1, 7), x2 = c(4, 6), x3 = c(8, 2)), > > decreasing = FALSE) : unimplemented type 'list' in 'orderVector1' > > > > The only way I can sort all the data is by converting it to a matrix: > >> sort(as.matrix(x)) > > [1] 1 2 4 6 7 8 > > > > But now I lost all the names attributes. > > > > Is it possible to sort a data frame and keep all the names? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Zhihua Li > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > [[elided Hotmail spam]] > > > > [[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. _________________________________________________________________ [[elided Hotmail spam]] [[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.
