Re: [R] Sorting dataframe by different columns On the R wiki site there is a general-purpose function (sort.data.frame) that allows you to do this: sort(df, by=~ x-z) See: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-frames:sort Regards, Kevin On 6/8/07, Gunther HÃ¶ning  wrote: > Dear list, > > I have a very short question, > Suggest a dataframe of four columns. > > df <- data.frame(w,x,y,z) > > I want this ordered the following way: > first by :x, decreasing = FALSE > and > secondly by: z, decreasing =TRUE > > How can this be done ? > > Thanks > > Gunther > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.