[R] order function

[Uwe Ligges]

On 01.02.2013 17:52, Kripa R wrote:
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> Hi I'm having a simple issue with the order function. When I use the following code my data is not ordered correctly > output[order(output[,3]),]
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> Name    beta                         pval
> 881      9.09303277751237     0.000100253350483199
> 7402    6.40553461638365     0.00010228641631914
> 4879   -8.88509881106217     0.000103251645995887

This is obviously sorted correctly according to the values in the third 
column.


>   However when I export the data and sort it in excel I see the following:


Name         beta                         pval       pval
> 25037           -5.70737             2.48E-07
> 34294           -19.6931             1.04E-05
> 36002           -12.2478             1.63E-05  Any suggestions on how I can get this sort to work properly on data in scientifict format?


This is not sorted correctly, so please ask Microsoft. R did it well.

Best,
Uwe Ligges






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