Is there an equivalent R function to Stata 'order' command?

Question

\'order\' in R seems like \'sort\' in Stata. Here\'s a dataset for example (only variable names listed):

v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8 v9 v10 v11 v12 v13 v14 v15 v16 v17 v

Answer 1

It is very unclear what you would like to do, but your first sentence makes me assume you would like to sort dataset.

Actually, there is a built-in order function, which returns the indices of the ordered sequence. Are you searching this?

> x <- c(3,2,1)

> order(x)
[1] 3 2 1

> x[order(x)]
[1] 1 2 3