Custom sorting (non-alphabetical)

Question

I have a categorical data set that looks similar to:

A < -data.frame(animal = c(\"cat\",\"cat\",\"cat\",\"dog\",\"dog\",\"dog\",\"elephant\",\"elephant\",         


        

Answer 1

In a vein similar to how agstudy did it, I'd present the 'tidyverse' way of presenting the ordering:

A$animal <- factor(A$animal, levels = c("dog", "elephant","cat"))
A$color <- factor(A$color, levels = c("green", "blue", "red"))

Then we load dplyr or the whole tidyverse and can do

arrange(A, animal, color)

or simply

A %>% arrange(animal, color)

where %>% is the 'pipe' operator in r, and can be accessed by using Ctrl + Shift + m