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How to sort a data.table using vector of multiple columns in R?

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Here,you can use setorderv:

library(data.table)

DT = data.table(x=rep(c("b","a","c"),each=3), y=c(1,3,6), v=1:9)

#column vector

keycol <-c("x","y")

setorderv(DT, keycol)

DT

   x y v

1: a 1 4

2: a 3 5

3: a 6 6

4: b 1 1

5: b 3 2

6: b 6 3

7: c 1 7

8: c 3 8

9: c 6 9

As the function updates DT by reference there is no need of assigning the output of setorderv back to DT. 

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