[R] Programming puzzle...

[Rashid Nassar]

Here is a small function that was posted here some time ago by Renaud 
Lancelot in response to a similar question and which I find very handy:

Sortmat.R <- 
function (Mat, Sort) 
#  by   Renaud Lancelot <lancelot at telecomplus.sn>
#  Sort matrix or dataframe 'Mat', by column(s) 'Sort'.
#  e.g. sortmat.R(datafr, c(2,4,1))     
{
    m <- do.call("order", as.data.frame(Mat[, Sort]))
    Mat[m, ]
}


On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Ron Wehrens wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:37:24 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Ron Wehrens <rwehrens at sci.kun.nl>
> To: Rhelp <r-help at hypatia.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: [R] Programming puzzle...
> 
> Dear R guru's,
> 
> I'd like to sort the columns of a matrix according to the elements in the
> first row, and in case of a tie according to the second row, etc.
> In case of a 3xn matrix woppa, something like
> 
> colorder _ order(woppa[1,], woppa[2,], woppa[3,])
> 
> I just cannot seem to find a way to do this for a variable number of rows,
> e.g. if woppa has 10 or 15 rows I now manually cut and paste to have 10 - 15
> arguments in the order function. There has to be a clever way to do this...
> 
> 
> Ron
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