colorder {collapse}

Fast Reordering of Data Frame Columns

Description

Efficiently reorder columns in a data frame. To do this fully by reference see also data.table::setcolorder.

Usage

colorder(.X, ..., pos = "front")

colorderv(X, neworder = radixorder(names(X)),
          pos = "front", regex = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

.X, X

a data frame or list.

...

for colorder: Column names of .X in the new order (can also use sequences i.e. col1:coln, newname = colk, ...). For colorderv: Further arguments to grep if regex = TRUE.

neworder

a vector of column names, positive indices, a suitable logical vector, a function such as is.numeric, or a vector of regular expressions matching column names (if regex = TRUE).

pos

integer or character. Different options regarding column arrangement if ...length() < ncol(.X) (or length(neworder) < ncol(X)).

Int.		String		Description
1		"front"		move specified columns to the front (the default).
2		"end"		move specified columns to the end.
3		"exchange"		just exchange the positions of selected columns, other columns remain in the same position.
4		"after"		place all further selected columns behind the first selected column.

regex

logical. TRUE will do regular expression search on the column names of X using a (vector of) regular expression(s) passed to neworder. Matching is done using grep. Note that multiple regular expressions will be matched in the order they are passed, and funique will be applied to the resulting set of indices.

Value

.X/X with columns reordered (no deep copies).

See Also

roworder, Data Frame Manipulation, Collapse Overview

Examples

head(colorder(mtcars, vs, cyl:hp, am))
head(colorder(mtcars, vs, cyl:hp, am, pos = "end"))
head(colorder(mtcars, vs, cyl:hp, am, pos = "after"))
head(colorder(mtcars, vs, cyl, pos = "exchange"))
head(colorder(mtcars, vs, cyl:hp, new = am))    # renaming

## Same in standard evaluation
head(colorderv(mtcars, c(8, 2:4, 9)))
head(colorderv(mtcars, c(8, 2:4, 9), pos = "end"))
head(colorderv(mtcars, c(8, 2:4, 9), pos = "after"))
head(colorderv(mtcars, c(8, 2), pos = "exchange"))