Per ordinare un dataframe in R, in base ai valori di una o più delle variabili in esso contenute, possiamo utilizzare la funzione arrange() del pacchetto *dplyr*.

Ad esempio:

es_arrange.R

# pacchetti
library(tidyverse)
library(nycflights13)
 
# dati
data(flights)
 
arrange(flights, year, month, day)

## # A tibble: 336,776 x 19
##    year month   day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
##   <int> <int> <int>    <int>          <int>     <dbl>    <int>          <int>
## 1  2013     1     1      517            515         2      830            819
## 2  2013     1     1      533            529         4      850            830
## 3  2013     1     1      542            540         2      923            850
## 4  2013     1     1      544            545        -1     1004           1022
## 5  2013     1     1      554            600        -6      812            837
## 6  2013     1     1      554            558        -4      740            728
## # … with 336,770 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## #   carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## #   air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>

Per ordinare i dati in ordine decrescente, usiamo desc():

arrange(flights, desc(dep_delay))
 
<code>
## # A tibble: 336,776 x 19
##    year month   day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay arr_time sched_arr_time
##   <int> <int> <int>    <int>          <int>     <dbl>    <int>          <int>
## 1  2013     1     9      641            900      1301     1242           1530
## 2  2013     6    15     1432           1935      1137     1607           2120
## 3  2013     1    10     1121           1635      1126     1239           1810
## 4  2013     9    20     1139           1845      1014     1457           2210
## 5  2013     7    22      845           1600      1005     1044           1815
## 6  2013     4    10     1100           1900       960     1342           2211
## # … with 336,770 more rows, and 11 more variables: arr_delay <dbl>,
## #   carrier <chr>, flight <int>, tailnum <chr>, origin <chr>, dest <chr>,
## #   air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>, minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>

Vedi:

- Operatori logici - RDocumentation: arrange - RDocumentation: desc