[R] sort.list, order

[Jason Turner]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 07:46:07AM +0900, Jun Takeda wrote:
> I think "sort.list" and "order" somtimes return incorrect results. 
> 
> ===R1.6.1===
> > sort.list(c(2,3,1,5,4))
> [1] 3 1 2 5 4
> > order(c(2,3,1,5,4))
> [1] 3 1 2 5 4
> >
> ===========

order and sort.list return indices, not values, so 
those are correct.  Try:

zz <- c(2,3,1,5,4)
zz[order(zz)]


Cheers

Jason
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