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How to sort a data frame in R by multiple columns together?
We can sort a data frame by multiple columns using order function.
Example
Consider the below data frame −
> df <- data.frame(x1 = factor(c("Hi", "Med", "Hi", "Low"), levels = c("Low", "Med", "Hi"), ordered = TRUE), x2 = c("A", "B", "D", "C"), x3 = c(4, 7, 5, 3), x4 = c(9, 5, 7, 4)) > df x1 x2 x3 x4 1 Hi A 4 9 2 Med B 7 5 3 Hi D 5 7 4 Low C 3 4
Let’s say we want to sort the data frame by column x4 in descending order then by column x1 in ascending order.
It can be done follows −
> df[with(df, order(-x4, x1)), ] x1 x2 x3 x4 1 Hi A 4 9 3 Hi D 5 7 2 Med B 7 5 4 Low C 3 4
We can do it by using column index as well −
> df[order(-df[,4], df[,1]), ] x1 x2 x3 x4 1 Hi A 4 9 3 Hi D 5 7 2 Med B 7 5 4 Low C 3 4
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