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How to sort a dataframe by column(s) in R

I am trying to sort a data.frame by several columns

df<-data.frame("Sp1"=c(7,4,2),"Sp2"=c(6,2,1))
row.names(df)<-c("A01","A02","A03")

    Sp1 Sp2
A01   7   6
A02   4   2
A03   2   1

#I am using    

df[with(df, order("Sp1"))]

however this does nothing. Any ideas why? Thanks

Answer 1

Sp1 should not be quoted when you are using with. This would always just return 1 and thus just return your first row. Try this instead:

> df[order(df$Sp1),] 
    Sp1 Sp2
A03   2   1
A02   4   2
A01   7   6
> df[with(df, order(Sp1)), ]
    Sp1 Sp2
A03   2   1
A02   4   2
A01   7   6