[R] Is it possible to...

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Marc Feldesman wrote:

> I have a matrix (1000 x 224) that contains the output from the function
> boot.array.  For each row, there are 224 columns that represent the case
> numbers of the selected individuals from a bootstrap.  The cases are listed
> in selection order, not numerical order.  I'd like to rearrange the cells
> so that every row has the column entries listed ascending numeric order.
>
> I've been able to do the sorting using two explicit for loops, but I cannot
> figure out a vectorized way to do it using apply, order, and/or sort.  Is
> there a clever vectorized way to do this?

Yes.  Do a lexicographic sort on row then value, of the whole matrix
as a vector.  There's an example in S Programming p. 153

Simpler:

A <- matrix(rnorm(1000*224), 1000, 224)
A1 <- t(apply(A, 1, sort))

as compared to

A2 <- t(matrix(A[order(row(A), A)], ,1000))

On my test the first was a little faster.

E&OE, of course.

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