This was just discussed recently. Try: library(gtools) ?mixedorder
On 2/24/06, mtb954 mtb954 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to sort a DATAFRAME by a column "ID" that contains > alphanumeric data. Specifically,"ID" contains integers all preceeded > by the character "g" as in: > > g1, g6, g3, g19, g100, g2, g39 > > I am using the following code: > > DATAFRAME=DATAFRAME[order(DATAFRAME1$ID),] > > and was hoping it would sort the dataframe by ID in the following manner > > g1, g2, g3, g6, g19, g39, g100 > > but it doesn't sort at all. Could anyone point out my mistake? > > Thank you. > > Mark > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
