data_arrange: Arrange rows by column values

In datawizard: Easy Data Wrangling and Statistical Transformations

Arrange rows by column values

Description

data_arrange() orders the rows of a data frame by the values of selected columns.

Usage

data_arrange(data, select = NULL, safe = TRUE)

Arguments

data	A data frame, or an object that can be coerced to a data frame.
select	Character vector of column names. Use a dash just before column name to arrange in decreasing order, for example "-x1".
safe	Do not throw an error if one of the variables specified doesn't exist.

Value

A data frame.

Examples

# Arrange using several variables
data_arrange(head(mtcars), c("gear", "carb"))

# Arrange in decreasing order
data_arrange(head(mtcars), "-carb")

# Throw an error if one of the variables specified doesn't exist
try(data_arrange(head(mtcars), c("gear", "foo"), safe = FALSE))

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