moveMe: Reorders the Contents of a Vector
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Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References Examples

Shuffle the order of a vector around using natural language statements.

1	moveMe(invec, movecommand)

`invec`	The input vector
`movecommand`	The command that describes how you want to shuffle the vector. See Details.

This can be a useful function for reordering the columns of a data.frame or data.table in a convenient manner. In such cases, the invec would be names(your_data_frame). When using data.tables, remember to use setcolorder to avoid copying.

The movecommand argument is specified in the form of "a, b before f". The positions to move are:

first: move the specified items to the first postion.
last: move the specified items to the last position.
before: move the specified items before the value mentioned.
after: move the specified items after the value mentioned.

Multiples are allowed:

Specify multiple values to be moved by separating them with a comma.
Chain multiple move commands by separating them with a semicolon.

A vector.

Ananda Mahto

http://stackoverflow.com/a/18420673/1270695

myvec <- letters[1:10]
myvec
moveMe(myvec, "a last; b, e, g before d; c first; h after j")

x <- names(mtcars)
x
moveMe(x, "hp first; cyl after drat; vs, am, gear before mpg; wt last")