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I have a problem ordering by descending magnitude a POSIXt object. Can someone help please and let me know how to work around this. My goal is to be able to order my data by DATE and then by descending TIME. I have tried to include as much info as possible below. The problem stems from trying to read in times from a CSV file. I have converted the character time values to a POSIXt object using the

Hi R helpers, I'm trying to create a count in R , but as there is no retain function like in SAS I'm running into difficulties. I have the following : Date_var and wish to obtain Date_var Count_var 01/01/2011 01/01/2011 1 01/01/2011

Hi, I am trying to simultaneously remove duplicate variables from two or more variables in a small R data.frame. I am trying to reproduce the SAS statements from a Proc Sort with Nodupkey for those familiar with SAS. Here's my example data : test <- read.csv("test.csv", sep=",", as.is=TRUE) > test date var1 var2 num1 num2 1 28/01/11 a 1 213 71 2