Sort Column by other column

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Sort Column by other column

Stephonomon opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

Hi, is it possible to use an order by for the addRowDataGroups line? For example, I want to have a group for Months (January-December) and to have them sorted by their number order (1-12). It's doing alphabetical at the moment.

pt$addRowDataGroups("TOC", dataSortOrder="desc")

Chris Bailiss · Answer 1 · Tue Aug 20 2019 03:31:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The best approach here is to set the data group to be based on a date or POSIXct column from a data frame (as opposed to being based on a text column). The values will then sort into the correct order in the pivot table. You can then format the values to display in a more text-friendly way.
An example of doing this can be found under the Formatting Data Groups heading in the Data Groups vignette:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pivottabler/vignettes/v02-datagroups.html

Chris Bailiss · Answer 2 · Tue Aug 20 2019 15:34:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

More general sorting options (including sorting by a calculation value) are described on the same page under the Sorting data groups heading.
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pivottabler/vignettes/v02-datagroups.html

Stephon Proctor · Answer 3 · Wed Aug 21 2019 00:36:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Great! I did it.

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