R help - May 2004 - basics: how do you sort a table?

Hi,

This may be a very basic question but it seems i cannot figure it 
out does not matter what.

how do you sort a table (ascending or descending) after the values 
in one particular column? I want to do something like the sort 
function in Xcel.

Also, is there any other plot function that accepts log for y axes 
like the parplot2() from gregmisc? Thanks for the tip Marc about 
barplot2. very useful indeed!

Thank you again for all the help,

Monica

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy wrote:
> This may be a very basic question but it seems i cannot figure it 
> out does not matter what.
> 
> how do you sort a table (ascending or descending) after the values 
> in one particular column? I want to do something like the sort 
> function in Xcel.
Well, what is `Xcel' and what is a `table'?  What Excel calls sheets are
usually represented as data frames in R, and ?order will tell you how to
do this.

help.search("sort") would surely have got you there -- did you try it?
> Also, is there any other plot function that accepts log for y axes 
> like the parplot2() from gregmisc? Thanks for the tip Marc about 
> barplot2. very useful indeed!
Look at `log' under ?par.  Almost all basic plot methods do. (It seems an
oversight that barplot does not.) This is in an `Introduction to R', for
example -- have you read that yet?

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