Sort one column based on another column

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Hi Tracy, welcome!

You can sort a dataframe by any column or combination of columns with the arrange() function from dplyr, see this example:

library(dplyr)

iris %>%
    arrange(Sepal.Width) %>% 
    head()
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width    Species
#> 1          5.0         2.0          3.5         1.0 versicolor
#> 2          6.0         2.2          4.0         1.0 versicolor
#> 3          6.2         2.2          4.5         1.5 versicolor
#> 4          6.0         2.2          5.0         1.5  virginica
#> 5          4.5         2.3          1.3         0.3     setosa
#> 6          5.5         2.3          4.0         1.3 versicolor

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