[R] [urgent]arranging data in descending order in each column
Ben Bolker
bbolker at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 09:40:49 CEST 2012
QAMAR MUHAMMAD UZAIR <d029307 <at> polito.it> writes:
>
> Dear R users,
>
> I have data in the following manner
>
> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
> 6 2 2 2
> 5 4 4 3
[snip]
> I want to arrange all the data in descending order. I have
> 92 columns in my actual data set. It is therefore
> difficult for me to apply order command to each column. Is
> there a short way of doing it?
Do you mean
apply(mydata,2,sort,decreasing=TRUE)
?
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