sort_df in package reshape?

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Leigh E. Lommen
<leigh.lom...@courtesycorporation.com> wrote:
> a <- c( 20071031,20071130, 20071231)
> sort(a)
>
> Or if you want convert to date:
> sort(strptime(a, '%Y%m%d'))
>
> Okay, but what if you have information in the other columns?
>
>
>
> For example:
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>
>
> 20071031  information   info
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> 20071130  information   info
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> 20071231  information   info
>
> Etc.
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>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Leigh
>
>
>
> ________________________________
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> From: Henrique Dallazuanna [mailto:www...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 8:12 PM
> To: Leigh E. Lommen
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] sorting by date
>
>
>
> a <- c( 20071031,20071130, 20071231)
> sort(a)
>
> Or if you want convert to date:
> sort(strptime(a, '%Y%m%d'))
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Leigh E. Lommen 
> <leigh.lom...@courtesycorporation.com> wrote:
>
> I am unsure how to sort a column by date if it is currently in the form:
>
> YYYYMMDD
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>
> For example the months:
>
> 20071031
>
> 20071130
>
> 20071231
>
> Etc.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Leigh
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