[R] Sorting a matrix

Erik Iverson
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:34:06 -0000

Do you really want to sort a *matrix*, or do you mean a data.frame?  See
?order.

Angelo Scozzarella wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to sort a matrix by a specific variable without changing the row
> binding between variables.
>
> Ex.
>
> Name    Sex        Age
> Fred    M        24
> John    M        18
> Mary    F        21
>
>
> ordered by Age
>
>
> Name    Sex        Age
> John    M        18
> Mary    F        21
> Fred    M        24
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Angelo
>
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