I had a similar misunderstanding of using partial in sort() a while back when I was trying to sort by columns, a la Excel. In this case, I ended up using the order() function, eg:
require(stats) swiss[order(rownames(swiss)), ] #sort by location swiss[order(swiss$fertility), ] #sort by fertility Not sure if this helps, as I am attempting to do a mind read based on ASCII (I get better results using unicode) Regards, Andrew On Jan 15, 10:42 am, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: > rkevinbur...@charter.net wrote: > > This is definitely a newbie question but from the documentation I have not > > been able to figure out what the partial sort option on the sort method > > does. I have read and re-read the documentation and looked at the examples > > but for some reason it doesn't register. Would someone attempt to explain > > what sort with a non-null partial array of indices does? > > It guarantees that those particular indices are sorted correctly, but > doesn't guarantee anything else. For example, > > > x <- 10:1 > > sort(x, partial=1) > > guarantees that the first entry in x (i.e. 10) is placed correctly, but > nothing else, and the result is: > > [1] 1 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 10 > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://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.
