How to sort a data frame by date

Assuming your data frame is named d,

d[order(as.Date(d$V3, format="%d/%m/%Y")),]

Read my blog post, Sorting a data frame by the contents of a column, if that doesn't make sense.

Nowadays, it is the most efficient and comfortable to use lubridate and dplyr libraries.

lubridate contains a number of functions that make parsing dates into POSIXct or Date objects easy. Here we use dmy which automatically parses dates in Day, Month, Year formats. Once your data is in a date format, you can sort it with dplyr::arrange (or any other ordering function) as desired:

d$V3 <- lubridate::dmy(d$V3)
dplyr::arrange(d, V3)

In case you want to sort dates with descending order the minus sign doesn't work with Dates.

out <- DF[rev(order(as.Date(DF$end))),]

However you can have the same effect with a general purpose function: rev(). Therefore, you mix rev and order like:

#init data
DF <- data.frame(ID=c('ID3', 'ID2','ID1'), end=c('4/1/09 12:00', '6/1/10 14:20', '1/1/11 11:10')
#change order
out <- DF[rev(order(as.Date(DF$end))),]

Hope it helped.

You can use order() to sort date data.

# Sort date ascending order
d[order(as.Date(d$V3, format = "%d/%m/%Y")),]

# Sort date descending order
d[rev(order(as.Date(d$V3, format = "%d/%m/%y"))),]

Hope this helps,

Link to my quora answer https://qr.ae/TWngCe

Thanks