sort.data.table method

[jan-swissre]

There could be sort method for data.table which basically could be

\x setorderv(copy(x), names(x))[]

[MichaelChirico]

Any reason to do this when:

1. We have a sort_by() method
2. There's no sort() method for data.frames (or tbl for that matter)?

[jan-swissre]

good point about sort_by,
the aim is to sort by all columns, and then simply sort seems to be good fit, very intuitive.
On the other hand sort_by is less convenient as columns have to be explicitly passed as well.
I think sort method could be dispatching to sort_by.

[MichaelChirico]

sort_by(x, x) will do effectively the same, FWIW