Dear R users,
I have a data frame which I create with read.csv and then order by
date:
d - na.omit(read.csv(...))
d - d[order(as.Date(as.character(d$Date), format=%d-%b-%y),
decreasing=F, na.last=F),]
My problem is that even though the data frame is ordered as
requested, the old row
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, bogdan romocea wrote:
My problem is that even though the data frame is ordered as
requested, the old row numbers are preserved. For example:
* Before sorting:
d[1:3,]
Date Amt
1 5-Nov-04 87.07
2 4-Nov-04 85.80
3 3-Nov-04 82.90
* After sorting:
d[1:3,]
Date Amt
It's your misinterpretion that is misleading, not the output.
Data frames have row *names* and not *numbers*.
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, bogdan romocea wrote:
Dear R users,
I have a data frame which I create with read.csv and then order by
date:
d - na.omit(read.csv(...))
d -
You wrote:
Is there a way to update the row numbers as well? It's not that
important, but I find it a bit confusing.
They're not actually row numbers, they're row ***names***.
These default to row numbers.
If they were real-live names you'd want them to be
