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Asked: May 22, 20262026-05-22T22:04:18+00:00 2026-05-22T22:04:18+00:00

I need to sort a data frame by date in R. The dates are

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I need to sort a data frame by date in R. The dates are all in the form of “dd/mm/yyyy”. The dates are in the 3rd column. The column header is V3. I have seen how to sort a data frame by column and I have seen how to convert the string into a date value. I can’t combine the two in order to sort the data frame by date.

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    2026-05-22T22:04:19+00:00Added an answer on May 22, 2026 at 10:04 pm

    Assuming your data frame is named d,

    d[order(as.Date(d$V3, format="%d/%m/%Y")),]
    

    Read my blog post, Sorting a data frame by the contents of a column, if that doesn’t make sense.

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