Re: [R] Sorting rows in a matrix based on vector of indecies

2009-02-20 Thread Esmail Bonakdarian
Hi David, This was useful, thanks. The example was just that, there are no "a"s, "b",s etc I was just trying to show what I was trying to do. Using m[v,] where m was the matrix in my example and v the vector of index values works great as you suggested Thanks. R is quite a powerful language

Re: [R] Sorting rows in a matrix based on vector of indecies

2009-02-20 Thread David Winsemius
Since you do not offer reproducible code, I must guess that you were thinking of this as a matrix with 6 instances of "a" across the top row. See if this helps: > mtx<-matrix( rep(letters[1:4], 6), nrow=4) > mtx [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [1,] "a" "a" "a" "a" "a" "a" [2,] "b" "b

[R] Sorting rows in a matrix based on vector of indecies

2009-02-20 Thread Esmail Bonakdarian
Hello I have a matrix of size rows x cols. I also have a vector of size rows. The vector contains index values that corresponds to rows in the matrix. I would like to re-arrange/sort the contents of the matrix according to the entries in the vector. Can this be done efficiently in R and possib