Re: [R] about sorting table
UweL == Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:37:37 +0100 writes: UweL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I load a table with headers that enable me to acces it by the column names: tab-read.table(blob/data.dat,h=T) attach(tab) everythings are OK, but i try to sort this table against one of his column like this: tab-tab[order(tab$IndexUI),]; It is still ok, the table is sorted, if i type tab i see a sorted table. but, when i call the column by their names, it appears that the column isn't sorted... I believe that, is there a solution to attach column names another time, to reflect the effect of sorting this table? thks all for your answers UweL see ?colnames eehm, that won't really help here. The problem is that Guillaume - first attach()ed the data frame - then changed the data frame itself, - and then erronously assumed that the *attached* data would change. In general, we nowadays recommend quite often against using attach() but rather use the 'data = ' argument where applicable and use with( data frame , .. ) otherwise. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] about sorting table
Martin Maechler wrote: UweL == Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:37:37 +0100 writes: UweL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I load a table with headers that enable me to acces it by the column names: tab-read.table(blob/data.dat,h=T) attach(tab) everythings are OK, but i try to sort this table against one of his column like this: tab-tab[order(tab$IndexUI),]; It is still ok, the table is sorted, if i type tab i see a sorted table. but, when i call the column by their names, it appears that the column isn't sorted... I believe that, is there a solution to attach column names another time, to reflect the effect of sorting this table? thks all for your answers UweL see ?colnames eehm, that won't really help here. The problem is that Guillaume - first attach()ed the data frame Ah, thank you, MArtin, I overlooked that line Uwe - then changed the data frame itself, - and then erronously assumed that the *attached* data would change. In general, we nowadays recommend quite often against using attach() but rather use the 'data = ' argument where applicable and use with( data frame , .. ) otherwise. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] about sorting table
on 12/1/2005 4:05 AM Martin Maechler said the following: UweL == Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:37:37 +0100 writes: UweL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I load a table with headers that enable me to acces it by the column names: tab-read.table(blob/data.dat,h=T) attach(tab) everythings are OK, but i try to sort this table against one of his column like this: tab-tab[order(tab$IndexUI),]; It is still ok, the table is sorted, if i type tab i see a sorted table. but, when i call the column by their names, it appears that the column isn't sorted... I believe that, is there a solution to attach column names another time, to reflect the effect of sorting this table? thks all for your answers UweL see ?colnames eehm, that won't really help here. The problem is that Guillaume - first attach()ed the data frame - then changed the data frame itself, - and then erronously assumed that the *attached* data would change. In general, we nowadays recommend quite often against using attach() but rather use the 'data = ' argument where applicable and use with( data frame , .. ) otherwise. Yes, may I add this for Guillaume? I like to think that attach() makes a *read-only* copy of the data frame's columns. That may not be exactly what R does, but as a metaphor, it provides a way to think about what happens. You can get what you wanted by attach(tab) ... sorting code... detach() attach(tab) but as Martin says, it is nicer to use 'with()' rather than 'attach()', and many functions do take a 'data=' argument. (I hope that 'data=' will spread quickly to more R functions.) If you search the archives, you will find a very nice function, 'sort.data.frame()', by Kevin Wright. It allows sorting by several columns and in ascending and descending order without writing the basic code each time. MHP -- Michael Prager, Ph.D. Population Dynamics Team, NMFS SE Fisheries Science Center NOAA Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research Beaufort, North Carolina 28516 http://shrimp.ccfhrb.noaa.gov/~mprager/ Opinions expressed are personal, not official. No government endorsement of any product is made or implied. __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] about sorting table
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I load a table with headers that enable me to acces it by the column names: tab-read.table(blob/data.dat,h=T) attach(tab) everythings are OK, but i try to sort this table against one of his column like this: tab-tab[order(tab$IndexUI),]; It is still ok, the table is sorted, if i type tab i see a sorted table. but, when i call the column by their names, it appears that the column isn't sorted... I believe that, is there a solution to attach column names another time, to reflect the effect of sorting this table? thks all for your answers see ?colnames Uwe Ligges guillaume. __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
