RCEIM (version 0.2)

sortDataFrame: Sorting a data frame by a key

Description

A simple function to sort a data frame based on a certain keyword. This function was posted by r-fanatic at http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/470.

Usage

sortDataFrame(x, key, ...)

Arguments

x

The data frame to be sorted.

key

The key by which the data frame will be sorted.

...

Further arguments to be passed to the order function.

Value

The sorted data frame.

References

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/470.

Examples

# Create a simple data frame and order using the "B" key
ppp <- data.frame(A=1:10,B=10:1)
ppp
sortDataFrame(ppp,"B")
ppp