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statnet.common (version 3.2.3)

sort.data.frame: Implements a sort method for data.frame, sorting it in lexicographic order.

Description

This function returns a data frame sorted in lexcographic order: first by the first column, ties broken by the second, remaining ties by the third, etc..

Usage

## S3 method for class 'data.frame':
sort(x, decreasing = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x
A data.frame to sort.
decreasing
Whether to sort in decreasing order.
...
Ignored. Needed for compatibility with the generic.

Value

  • A data frame, sorted lexicographically.

See Also

data.frame, sort

Examples

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data(iris)

head(iris)

head(sort(iris))

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