Gabor Grothendieck wrote on 1/3/2006 2:37 PM: >Looking at the first few queries, >see how easy it is to take the top few in Stata whereas in R one would >have a complex use of order. Its not hard in R to write a function >that would make it just as easy but its not available off the top >of one's head though RSiteSearch("sort.data.frame") will find one >if one knew what to search for. > > Yes, R has a few peculiar gaps. As to sort.data.frame(), it should be added to R base, in my opinion. It is silly to make people download code for such a basic operation.
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