How can I order the rownames of a dataframe in R?

Question

I am using biological data from an imported CSV file where the gene symbols are put into "column 0" as rownames. I would like to order the rows alphabetically based on gene symbol.

I was thinking of extracting the column 0 rownames to a new column and then ordering but I prefer leaving the dataset how it is. Is there anyway to order the row names instead?

Yes, it works - thank you! – learner123 Oct 15 '19 at 10:58 — learner123, Oct 15 '19 at 10:58

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '19 at 10:56

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row_names_test <- data.frame(cbind(genes <- rownames(read.csv("~/row_names_test.csv")),
                                   read.csv("~/row_names_test.csv")))

row_names_test <- row_names_test[order(row_names_test$genes), ]

answered Oct 15 '19 at 10:56

hello_friend

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Thanks, I'll keep this in mind if I need the data this way later. For now I'm trying to keep the rownames in the original df. :) – learner123 Oct 15 '19 at 11:02
rownames(row_names_test) – hello_friend Oct 15 '19 at 12:15
I have but my reputation is quite low so i don't know if it displays – learner123 Oct 15 '19 at 12:26

How can I order the rownames of a dataframe in R?

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