Thanks, I ended up using that method! On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Dieter Menne <dieter.me...@menne-biomed.de>wrote:
> > > Paul Rigor (ucla) wrote: > > > > I have two data frames that share a common column, data1.name and > > data2.name. > > How would I be able to order the other based on an integer column from > > either data frame? > > > > For example, how do I order data2 based on data1.age? Or data1 based on > > data2.salary? > > > > > > I would ?merge the two on the common columns, and sort the merged. You > could > get around the merge, but it's easier to understand that way. > > Dieter > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/order-two-dataframes-by-an-integer-column-from-either-data-frame-tp1561815p1561827.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. > -- Paul Rigor Pre-doctoral BIT Fellow and Graduate Student Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/~prigor [[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.