[R] Ordering the rows of a data frame

Fri Jan 3 18:21:37 CET 2014

Bert, why do you think that "attach" is not working in this case? Did 
you check it before your advice? :)
I agree about "generally bad approach", but it is quite convenient for 
work with one data set.

Dmitry

On 03/01/2014 18:28, Bert Gunter wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Dmitry Pavlyuk
> <dmitry.v.pavlyuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Sofia!
>>
>> You need to attach the data file before sorting:
> This is false! -- and generally a bad idea.  See ?with
> Please do not give advice without checking whether it is correct.
>
> -- Bert
>
>
>> attach(df_final)
>>
>> or just use full qualified names (like df_final$Y_init)
>>
>> Dmitry
>>
>> On 03/01/2014 16:41, Stefano Sofia wrote:
>>> Dear R users,
>>> I have two files of seasonal rainfall data (more than 10,000 rows each); here the first 8 rows of each file are reported.
>>>
>>> Code_Raingouge,Y_init,M_init,D_init,h_init,m_init,Y_fin,M_fin,D_fin,h_fin,m_fin,Rainfall,N_Values,Quality_Level,Code_Station
>>> 2000,1952,12,1,0,0,1953,3,1,0,0,307.20,90,100.0,1510
>>> 2000,1953,3,1,0,0,1953,6,1,0,0,153.60,92,100.0,1510
>>> 2000,1953,6,1,0,0,1953,9,1,0,0,181.00,92,100.0,1510
>>> 2000,1953,9,1,0,0,1953,12,1,0,0,202.40,91,100.0,1510
>>> 2000,1953,12,1,0,0,1954,3,1,0,0,153.80,90,100.0,1510
>>> 2000,1954,3,1,0,0,1954,6,1,0,0,286.20,92,100.0,1510
>>> 2000,1954,6,1,0,0,1954,9,1,0,0,142.80,92,100.0,1510
>>> 2000,1954,9,1,0,0,1954,12,1,0,0,186.60,91,100.0,1510
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Code_Raingouge,Y_init,M_init,D_init,h_init,m_init,Y_fin,M_fin,D_fin,h_fin,m_fin,Rainfall,N_Values,Quality_Level,Code_Station
>>> 1056,2004,12,1,0,0,2005,3,1,0,0,93.60,2833,32.8,15
>>> 1056,2005,3,1,0,0,2005,6,1,0,0,149.80,4406,49.9,15
>>> 1056,2005,6,1,0,0,2005,9,1,0,0,52.80,1440,16.3,15
>>> 1056,2005,9,1,0,0,2005,12,1,0,0,191.80,1201,13.7,15
>>> 1056,2005,12,1,0,0,2006,3,1,0,0,26.40,336,3.9,15
>>> 1056,2006,12,1,0,0,2007,3,1,0,0,59.00,3604,41.7,15
>>> 1056,2007,3,1,0,0,2007,6,1,0,0,181.16,4414,50.0,15
>>> 1056,2007,6,1,0,0,2007,9,1,0,0,96.00,7337,83.1,15
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I have to load them as data frames, to merge them and sort them by (Y_init,M_init,D_init,Code_Raingouge).
>>>
>>> I wrote a short function where I first load the two files as data frames
>>>
>>> df_1 <- read.csv(file="prec_all_19521201_19821201.csv", sep=",")
>>> df_2 <- read.csv(file="prec_all_19821201_20111201.csv", sep=",")
>>>
>>> then I merge them by
>>>
>>> df_final <- merge(df_1, df_2, all=TRUE)
>>>
>>> and finally I try to order df_final through
>>>
>>> df_final <- df_final[order(Y_init, M_init, D_init, Code_Raingouge), ]
>>>
>>> but this returns only the first row.
>>>
>>> I read the manual carefully and I saw some examples, but I have not been able to do this simple task.
>>> I spent quite a long time and now I decided to ask the list.
>>> Could please somebody help me to show me where the mistake is?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Stefano
>>>
>>>
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