I have following object : > date2 [,1] [,2] [1,] "apr" "1992" [2,] "aug" "1992" [3,] "dec" "1992" [4,] "feb" "1992" [5,] "jan" "1992" [6,] "jul" "1992" [7,] "jun" "1992" [8,] "mar" "1992" [9,] "may" "1992" [10,] "nov" "1992" [11,] "oct" "1992" [12,] "sep" "1992" [13,] "apr" "1993" [14,] "aug" "1993" [15,] "dec" "1993" [16,] "feb" "1993" [17,] "jan" "1993" [18,] "jul" "1993" [19,] "jun" "1993" [20,] "mar" "1993" [21,] "may" "1993" [22,] "nov" "1993" [23,] "oct" "1993" [24,] "sep" "1993" [25,] "apr" "1994" [26,] "aug" "1994" [27,] "dec" "1994" [28,] "feb" "1994" [29,] "jan" "1994" [30,] "jul" "1994"
Now I want to sort the elements like below, and want to get the index numbers of "date2" under following sorting scheme. "jan" "1992" "feb" "1992" "mar" "1992" ............ "dec" "1992" "jan" "1993" "feb" "1993" "mar" "1993" ............ "dec" "1993" "jan" "1994" "feb" "1994" "mar" "1994" ............ "dec" "1994" Can anyone help me please? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Sorting-tp25401249p25401249.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.