Thanks.. but not working...

> sortedx1=ttx1[order(-ttx1$obs),]
Error in ttx1$obs : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors


On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:47 PM, P Ehlers <ehl...@ucalgary.ca> wrote:

> Try
>
>  sortedx1=ttx1[order(-ttx1$obs),]
>
> (and ask yourself where obs lives)
>
> -Peter Ehlers
>
> Hyo Lee wrote:
>
>>  Hi guys,
>> I need your help.
>> I'm trying to sort the data by the variable "obs".
>> This is how I tried to sort the data below.
>>
>> The problem is, I have a variable name "obs"; this is.. a counter
>> variable.
>> something like _n_ in SAS.
>> I do not know why it is not working.
>> I even tried a similar example in UCLA webpage:
>> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/R/faq/sort.htm  :it also does not seem to
>> work.
>> "*sort1.hsb2 <- hsb2[order(read) , ]"*
>> Do you have any idea how to deal with this problem??  Thank you so much.
>> -Hyo
>>
>>
>>
>>> colnames(ttx1)
>>>
>>>
>>  [1] "longitude 1"  "longitude 2"  "longitude 3"  "longitude 4"
>>  "longitude
>> 5"
>>  [6] "longitude 6"  "longitude 7"  "longitude 8"  "longitude 9"
>>  "longitude
>> 10"
>> [11] "longitude 11" "longitude 12" "longitude 13" "longitude 14"
>> "longitude
>> 15"
>> [16] "longitude 16" "longitude 17" "longitude 18" "longitude 19"
>> "longitude
>> 20"
>> [21] "longitude 21" "longitude 22" "longitude 23" "longitude 24"
>> "longitude
>> 25"
>> [26] "longitude 26" "longitude 27" "longitude 28" "longitude 29"
>> "longitude
>> 30"
>> [31] "longitude 31" "longitude 32" "longitude 33" "longitude 34"
>> "longitude
>> 35"
>> [36] "longitude 36" "longitude 37" "longitude 38" "longitude 39"
>> "longitude
>> 40"
>> [41] "longitude 41" "longitude 42" "longitude 43" "longitude 44"
>> "longitude
>> 45"
>> [46] "longitude 46" "longitude 47" "longitude 48" "longitude 49"
>> "longitude
>> 50"
>> [51] "longitude 51" "longitude 52" "longitude 53" "longitude 54"
>> "longitude
>> 55"
>> [56] "longitude 56" "longitude 57" "longitude 58" "longitude 59"
>> "longitude
>> 60"
>> [61] "longitude 61" "longitude 62" "longitude 63" "longitude 64"
>> "longitude
>> 65"
>> [66] "longitude 66" "longitude 67" "longitude 68" "longitude 69"
>> "longitude
>> 70"
>> [71] "longitude 71" "longitude 72" "obs"
>>
>>
>>> sortedx1=ttx1[order(-obs),]
>>>
>>>
>> Error in order(-obs) : object 'obs' not found
>>
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