How to sort a vector in R
Overview
Sorting a vector means arranging a given vector either alphabetically or numerically.
To perform this operation in R, we use the sort() function.
Syntax
sort(x)
Parameter
The sort() function takes a single parameter value, which is the vector object that is passed to it.
Return value
The sort() function returns the vector object with its items arranged either alphabetically or numerically.
Code example
# creating vector variablesmy_vector1 <- c("banana", "apple", "orange", "mango", "lemon")my_vector2 <- c(10, 8, 9, 4, 7, 5, 1, 3, 6, 2)# using the sort() functionsort(my_vector1)sort(my_vector2)
Code explanation
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Lines 2–3: We create two vectors, which are of type string and numeric.
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Lines 5–6: We call the
sort()function to sort those two vectors.
We can see that we are able to arrange the items of the vector objects, my_vector1 and my_vector2), alphabetically and numerically with the help of the sort() function.
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