Question

I have this huge data frame that has servernames, Date, CPU, memory as the headers. There are multiple servers names. I would like to be able to select certain server name order by the date column and create time serious graphs

this is a small subset of the data frame:

     Hostname                Date     5 60 61 CPUAVG CPUAVG+Sev CPUMaximum MemoryAVG
1 server1 2012-01-29 01:00:00 23.79 NA NA   2.33       0.72       2.33     23.76
2 server1 2012-01-29 02:00:00 23.91 NA NA   2.86       2.38       2.86     23.82
3 server1 2012-01-29 03:00:00 25.65 NA NA   6.25       9.59       6.25     24.85
4 server2 2012-01-29 04:00:00 26.30 NA NA  18.41      31.09      18.41     25.87
5 server3 2012-01-29 05:00:00 24.33 NA NA   1.92       0.42       1.92     24.24
6 server3 2012-01-29 06:00:00 24.40 NA NA   2.65       1.79       2.65     24.31

Answer 1

Checkout the ‘subset’ command.

thisServer <- subset (servers, Hostname="server1")

Then to order the rows

thisServerSorted <- thisServer[order(thisServer$Date),]

Then you can plot from there.