I agree with Duncan. may be you need this format(output[order(output[,3]),],scientific=T) Pratap
--- On Sat, 2/2/13, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [R] order function To: "Kripa R" <kripa...@hotmail.com> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Date: Saturday, 2 February, 2013, 4:19 AM On 13-02-01 12:15 PM, Kripa R wrote: > > Hi I'm having a simple issue with the order function. When I use the > following code my data is not ordered correctly > >> output[order(output[,3]),] > > Name beta pval > 881 9.09303277751237 0.000100253350483199 > 7402 6.40553461638365 0.00010228641631914 > 4879 -8.88509881106217 0.000103251645995887 That's correctly ordered in the pval column. > However when I export the data and sort it in excel I see the following: > Name beta pval pval > 25037 -5.70737 2.48E-07 > 34294 -19.6931 1.04E-05 > 36002 -12.2478 1.63E-05 That is a different dataset, also correctly ordered in the third column. Excel seems to have added a 4th heading for some reason. > > > Any suggestions on how I can get this sort to work properly on data in > scientifict format? You need to explain what is wrong before we can fix it. Duncan Murdoch > > .kripa > [[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. > ______________________________________________ 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]]
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