mat[match(ind, mat[, 2]), ]
[,1] [,2]
[1,] "y" "c"
[2,] "x" "b"
[3,] "z" "d"
[4,] "w" "a"
though you need to take care if you have cases where ind will contains letters
that are not in mat[, 2] and so on (check ?match).
Best,
I
On 10 Jan 2013, at 18:21, array chip <arrayprof...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi I have a character matrix with 2 columns A and B, If I want to sort the
> matrix based on the column B, but based on a specific order of characters:
>
> mat<-cbind(c('w','x','y','z'),c('a','b','c','d'))
> ind<-c('c','b','d','a')
>
> I want "mat" to be sorted by the sequence in "ind":
>
> [,1] [,2]
> [1,] "y" "c"
> [2,] "x" "b"
> [3,] "z" "d"
> [4,] "w" "a"
>
> Is there any simple function that can do this?
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
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