Yes,
x[order(order(z)),]
Two uses of order are needed, as shown.
Rich
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Leon Yee <yee.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a data frame with several columns, and I have the specified
> order of a given column. How can I re-order the rows of my data frame
> accroding to this specified order? for example,
>
> x = data.frame( num = 1:26, alpha = letters[1:26], stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
> z = sample(x$alpha, replace=FALSE)
> Can I re-order x accroding to z ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leon
>
>
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