dat1[order(dat1$val), ] unless you used attach(dat1).
Sarah On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:36 PM, John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote: > Has there been a change in the syntax for order() or am I just making some > stupid mistake here? > > dat1 <-read.table(text=" > name val > Alex 4 > Jim 10 > Fred 8 > Julie 44 > ",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) > dat1[order(val), ] # Gives Error in order(val) : object 'val' not found > > dat1[order(dat1[,2]), ] # Works just fine. > > John Kane > Kingston ON Canada > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.