William, I think to convert to numeric, you might need to do something like:
as.numeric(as.character(xxxx)) ## and not just as.numeric(xxxx) As it stands, it would appear that it is still being read as a character string. ________________________________ From: William Armstrong <william.armstr...@noaa.gov> To: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Tue, June 7, 2011 10:05:37 AM Subject: Re: [R] Sorting a data frame with values of different lengths Also, I tried changing a line to store W as numeric: sample_info<-c(pds_gagehandles[i],p,as.numeric(sample_W)) But it is still sorting incorrectly: > W_table[order(W_table$as.numeric.W.),] pds_gagehandles.i. p as.numeric.W. 8 mibe 8 1004.5 1 mibe 1 746 10 mibe 10 746 6 mibe 6 811.5 2 mibe 2 818.5 11 mibe 11 822.5 4 mibe 4 879 5 mibe 5 888 9 mibe 9 901 7 mibe 7 903.5 3 mibe 3 919.5 > str(W_table) 'data.frame': 11 obs. of 3 variables: $ pds_gagehandles.i.: Factor w/ 1 level "mibe": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... $ p : chr "1" "2" "3" "4" ... $ as.numeric.W. : chr "746" "818.5" "919.5" "879" ... -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Sorting-a-data-frame-with-values-of-different-lengths-tp3579653p3579691.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
