I guess we could make it do the equivalent of do.call(order, df). On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 8:32 AM Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote: > > Hello, > > There is a result with lists? I am getting > > > order(list(letters, 1:26)) > #Error in order(list(letters, 1:26)) : > # unimplemented type 'list' in 'orderVector1' > > order(data.frame(letters, 1:26)) > # [1] 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 > #[22] 48 49 50 51 52 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 > #[43] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 > > > And I agree that order with data.frames should give a warning. The > result is indeed useless: > > data.frame(letters, 1:26)[order(data.frame(letters, 1:26)), ] > > > Hope this helps, > > Rui Barradas > > > Às 00:19 de 18/05/20, Jan Gorecki escreveu: > > Hi, > > base::order main input arguments are defined as: > > > > a sequence of numeric, complex, character or logical vectors, all of > > the same length, or a classed R object > > > > When passing a list or a data.frame, the resuts seems to be a bit > > useless. Shouldn't that raise an error, or at least warning? > > > > Best Regards, > > Jan Gorecki > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
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