[R] order() results

[Uwe Ligges]

> Manuel Castejon Limas wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Let´s consider aux1. I wanted to order its data considering its first
> column as the index
> 
> > aux1[1:4,]
>               V1   V2    V3     V4      V5 V6
> 1 0.08506724 150 1956 15.08 233.82 463.295 14
> 2 0.76205323 203 1922 15.35 218.74 463.295 14
> 3 0.86274890 195 1835 12.54 203.39 463.295 14
> 4 0.37940715 152 1567 24.73 190.85 463.295 14
> 
> > aux2 <-- aux1[order(aux1[1:4,1]) , ]
> > aux2
>                 V1    V2     V3      V4       V5  V6
> 1 -0.08506724 -150 -1956 -15.08 -233.82 -463.295 -14
> 4 -0.37940715 -152 -1567 -24.73 -190.85 -463.295 -14
> 2 -0.76205323 -203 -1922 -15.35 -218.74 -463.295 -14
> 3 -0.86274890 -195 -1835 -12.54 -203.39 -463.295 -14
> Why did the result came with a minus sign?
> 
> Is it a bug?


No. 
You wrote:
  aux2 <-- aux1[order(aux1[1:4,1]) , ]
         ^
but this is correct ;-):
  aux2 <- aux1[order(aux1[1:4,1]) , ]

Regards,
Uwe Ligges
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