Is this what you want? test[order(test$nr, -as.integer(test$date)),]
Xavier ----- Mail Original ----- De: "Stefan Uhmann" <stefan.uhm...@googlemail.com> À: r-help@r-project.org Envoyé: Mardi 29 Septembre 2009 11h27:20 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: [R] sort dates within a factor Dear List, I have the following data: >> test <- data.frame(date = as.Date(c('2007-01-01','2008-03-24','2003-03-02','2008-05-03','2002-05-23','2001-06-30','2005-12-04')), nr = c(2000,2000,2000,2001,2002,2003,2003)) test date nr 1 2007-01-01 2000 2 2008-03-24 2000 3 2003-03-02 2000 4 2008-05-03 2001 5 2002-05-23 2002 6 2001-06-30 2003 7 2005-12-04 2003 << and would like a result which looks as follows, i.e. that sorts the dates within the factor starting with the last one: >> cbind(test, index = c(2,1,3,1,1,2,1)) << date nr index 1 2007-01-01 2000 2 2 2008-03-24 2000 1 3 2003-03-02 2000 3 4 2008-05-03 2001 1 5 2002-05-23 2002 1 6 2001-06-30 2003 2 7 2005-12-04 2003 1 I've done sth. similar before, but I have difficulties to figure it out this time. Thanks for your help in advance! Regards, Stefan ______________________________________________ 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.