Re: sorting one column and having the other 2 move also

["David L Lorenz" <lorenz@usgs.gov>]

Mark,
  Take a look at sort.col.  I think that will do what you want.
Dave



                                                                                
                                                           
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i have a dataframe with 3 columns

"name", "ticker" and "shares" which
are character, chracter and integer
respectively.

i want to sort the dataframe by
the first column : "name"
and have the other 2 columns
move along with the sorted
first column as you would expect.

i suspect it's not possible to do this so
i will have to sort the first column by
itself and then use some kind
of indexing thing in a loop
of some sort but i am
checking first before
i start dealing with this.


                    thanks.