Gabor, Thank you very much!
Bill ----- Original Message ---- From: Gábor Csárdi <[email protected]> To: Bill Hyman <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 6, 2009 2:37:30 PM Subject: Re: [R] How to sort a matrix or dataframe by two columns? Yes, you can: m <- matrix( sample(1:5, 20, rep=TRUE), nc=2) m[ order(m[,1],m[,2]), ] Gabor On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Bill Hyman <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a matrix data and would like to sort it by col 1 first and then sort > it by col 2. Can I do it in R? Thanks a lot! > > Bill > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > -- Gabor Csardi <[email protected]> UNIL DGM ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.

