# Cant find order

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-find-order/73637
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** sortperm
**Created:** [December 26, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-find-order/73637 "2021-12-26T08:18:26Z")
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### Author: ![JackStrauss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@JackStrauss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JackStrauss)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-find-order/73637/1 "2021-12-26T08:18:26Z")

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Hello everybody

Julia has order() which seems to be used for sorting dataframes.

But my search skills have failed me in finding a function that gives me the order of elements in a vector. Like  
order([10.2,-3,5])  
gives 2,3,1  
R has such function which we use a lot. Its easy enough to code up, but surely there is some Julia order() function that does that?

best, Jack

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### Author: ![jzr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jzr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jzr)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2021, 8:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-find-order/73637/2 "2021-12-26T08:49:26Z")

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[https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/sort/#Base.sortperm](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/sort/#Base.sortperm)

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### Author: ![JackStrauss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@JackStrauss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JackStrauss)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cant-find-order/73637/3 "2021-12-26T08:51:06Z")

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jzr, fantastic, I knew it had to be there! thanks a lot.