Re: [R] How to have original (name) order after melt and cast command

Hello, Try the following. # This is your code df_sorted = df[order(as.Date(df$date, "%m/%d/%Y"), decreasing = TRUE),] # This is my code nams <- as.character(unique(dat1$name)) nums <- sapply(nams, function(nm) which(names(df_sorted) %in% nm)) df_sorted[, sort(nums)] <- df_sorted[, nams] names(d

Re: [R] How to have original (name) order after melt and cast command

Dear Mr Rui Barradas, Thanks a lot for your wonderful suggestion. It worked and will help me immensely in future too. Really heartfelt thanks once again. Vincy --- On Wed, 7/18/12, Rui Barradas wrote: From: Rui Barradas Subject: Re: [R] How to have original (name) order after melt and cast

[R] How to have original (name) order after melt and cast command

Dear R helpers, I have a data.frame as given below - dat1 = data.frame(date = as.Date(c("3/30/12","3/29/12","3/28/12","3/27/12","3/26/12", "3/23/12","3/22/12","3/21/12","3/20/12", "3/30/12","3/29/12","3/28/12","3/27/12", "3/26/12","3/23/12","3/22/12","3/21/12","3/20/12", "3/30/12","3/29/12","3