[R] sorting dataframe

[Henrik Bengtsson]

See order(). -Henrik

On 21/11/2007, Rina Oldager Miehs <rinamiehs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> We have a problem with sorting our dataframe...
> i have tried to write
>
> x <- males[sort(males$index, decreasing=T),]
>
> But that just gives me
>
> > x
>       id sex BVgain BVmeat phenogain phenomeat index
> NA    NA  NA     NA     NA        NA        NA    NA
> NA.1  NA  NA     NA     NA        NA        NA    NA
> NA.2  NA  NA     NA     NA        NA        NA    NA
> NA.3  NA  NA     NA     NA        NA        NA    NA
> NA.4  NA  NA     NA     NA        NA        NA    NA
>
> And that is not right...
>
> We have 7 variables in a dataframe and we need it sorted by one
> variable... how do we do that so we get the same dataframe out just
> sorted....???
> Please help:)
>
> Cincerely Rina Miehs
>
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