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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