Re: [R] sorting table output

On 22/10/2009, at 11:16 AM, Erin Hodgess wrote: Dear R People: Suppose I have the following output: table(xx) xx A C G T 13 12 10 15 I would like to have the output sorted in descending order by "height" or frequency. But when I do the following: rev(table(xx)) xx T G C A 15 1

Re: [R] sorting table output

I would like to have the output sorted in descending order by "height" or frequency. But when I do the following: rev(table(xx)) xx T G C A 15 10 12 13 Err, I guess you meant to write sort(table(xx)) here? Cheers, Stefan __ R-help

[R] sorting table output

Dear R People: Suppose I have the following output: > table(xx) xx A C G T 13 12 10 15 I would like to have the output sorted in descending order by "height" or frequency. But when I do the following: > rev(table(xx)) xx T G C A 15 10 12 13 > the output is sorted by the names rather