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kutils (version 1.73)

sortStanza: Move missing values to last row in long key block

Description

Receive key stanza and sort the rows so that the missing values are last in the list. Leaves ordering of other rows unchanged otherwise.

Usage

sortStanza(
  keyblock,
  valvar = "value_new",
  na.strings = c("\\.", "", "\\s+", "N/A")
)

Value

keyblock, row re-arranged with missings last

Arguments

keyblock

a variable key, or section of rows

valvar

Default is "value_new", the column for sorting.

na.strings

Stings to be treated as missing, along with R's NA symbol