My list looks something like this:

I have converted the string values (such as rs267) to numbers but when I try:

lapply(list, function(x) sort(x))

My data ends up being sorted by the values of the list. But I want it to be sorted by the name values, since these are numeric.

CodePudding user response：

Convert the names (character) to numeric, apply order and use that index for ordering the list

list[order(as.numeric(names(list)))]