[R] Simple ordering or sorting question

[jim holtman]

It looks like your row numbers are "characters" because that is the
sort sequence you are getting. Try

df <- df[order(as.numeric(rownames(df))), ]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:42 PM, David Kaplan
<dkaplan at education.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm trying to simply reorder a data frame on the row numbers.  So, for
> example, instead of getting 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11, ... 100 ...,  I get
> instead
> 1, 10, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 11, ...   I've
> tried commands such as
>
> df <- df[order(rownames(df)),] and
>
> and have substituted the order command with sort and sort.list to no
> avail.  Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>
> David
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Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

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