[R] ordering by a datframe date

I am hoping for some advice regarding ordering a dataframe, by date. The dataframe is in the format below. $story $datepub story10 1 April 1999 story 901 March 2002 story 3710 July 1985 I want to reorder the entire dataframe so the earliest story is first, and

Re: [R] ordering by a datframe date

Try this: Lines - story,datepub story10,1 April 1999 story 90,1 March 2002 story 37,10 July 1985 DF - read.csv(textConnection(Lines)) DF[order(as.Date(DF$datepub, %d %B %Y)),] On 8/6/06, Bob Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am hoping for some advice regarding ordering a dataframe, by date.