Sort data.frame rows by values in specified columns

Sort rows of an data.frame by values in specified columns.

sortByCol(
  data.frame,
  columns,
  na.last = TRUE,
  decreasing = TRUE,
  orderAsAttr = FALSE
)

Arguments

data.frame

A data.frame object

columns

Column name(s) which sould be ordered

na.last

Logical, whether NA should be sorted as last

decreasing

Logical, whether the sorting should be in the decreasing order

orderAsAttr

Logical, whether the order index vectors should be returned in the attribute “order” of the sorted data.frame

Value

Sorted data.frame

Details

Columns can be specified by integer indices, logical vectors or character names.

Author

Jitao David Zhang <jitao_david.zhang@roche.com>

Examples

sample.df <- data.frame(teams=c("HSV", "BVB", "FCB", "FCN"),pts=c(18,17,17,9), number=c(7,7,6,6))
sortByCol(sample.df, 1L)
#>   teams pts number
#> 1   HSV  18      7
#> 4   FCN   9      6
#> 3   FCB  17      6
#> 2   BVB  17      7
sortByCol(sample.df, 1L, decreasing=FALSE)
#>   teams pts number
#> 2   BVB  17      7
#> 3   FCB  17      6
#> 4   FCN   9      6
#> 1   HSV  18      7

sortByCol(sample.df, c(3L, 1L))
#>   teams pts number
#> 1   HSV  18      7
#> 2   BVB  17      7
#> 4   FCN   9      6
#> 3   FCB  17      6
sortByCol(sample.df, c(3L, 1L), decreasing=FALSE)
#>   teams pts number
#> 3   FCB  17      6
#> 4   FCN   9      6
#> 2   BVB  17      7
#> 1   HSV  18      7
sortByCol(sample.df, c(3L, 2L))
#>   teams pts number
#> 1   HSV  18      7
#> 2   BVB  17      7
#> 3   FCB  17      6
#> 4   FCN   9      6

sortByCol(sample.df, c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE))
#>   teams pts number
#> 1   HSV  18      7
#> 4   FCN   9      6
#> 3   FCB  17      6
#> 2   BVB  17      7

sortByCol(sample.df, c("teams", "pts"))
#>   teams pts number
#> 1   HSV  18      7
#> 4   FCN   9      6
#> 3   FCB  17      6
#> 2   BVB  17      7
sortByCol(sample.df, c("pts", "number", "teams"))
#>   teams pts number
#> 1   HSV  18      7
#> 2   BVB  17      7
#> 3   FCB  17      6
#> 4   FCN   9      6
sortByCol(sample.df, c("pts", "teams", "number"))
#>   teams pts number
#> 1   HSV  18      7
#> 3   FCB  17      6
#> 2   BVB  17      7
#> 4   FCN   9      6