Hi folks, I want to sort a matrix row-by-row and create a new matrix that contains the corresponding colnames of the original matrix.
E.g. > set.seed(123) > a <- matrix(rnorm(20), ncol=4); colnames(a) <- c("A","B","C","D") > a A B C D [1,] -0.56047565 1.7150650 1.2240818 1.7869131 [2,] -0.23017749 0.4609162 0.3598138 0.4978505 [3,] 1.55870831 -1.2650612 0.4007715 -1.9666172 [4,] 0.07050839 -0.6868529 0.1106827 0.7013559 [5,] 0.12928774 -0.4456620 -0.5558411 -0.4727914 I want to obtain a matrix that looks like this A C B D A C B D D B C A B A C D C D B A How best to achieve this? I was able to do it for the max and min of each row by which.min, which.max, but for the entire thing, I'm stymied. Thanks, Murali ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.