How to sort a data frame by date

Question

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 s

Answer 1

You can use order() to sort date data.

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

# Sort date descending order
d[rev(order(as.Date(d$V3, format = "%d/%m/%y"))),]

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