How to Sort Single Column Summary Tables Using R

This article describes how to go from an unsorted table...

..to a table that is sorted using R:

Requirements

• A table with one column and multiple rows.

Method

1. Select your table.

2. From Properties , copy the name from General > Name.

3. From the toolbar, go to Calculation > Custom Code.

4. Click on the page to place the custom output.

5. In the code panel, add a line to the code that defines the table as table = table_name where table_name is copied from step 2.

6. Add this line to the code to sort in descending order: table[order(table, decreasing = TRUE)]

Below is the code from this example that sorts in decreasing order:

table = table.Preferred.cola
table = table[order(table, decreasing = TRUE)] 

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