[R] [urgent]arranging data in descending order in each column

QAMAR MUHAMMAD UZAIR d029307 at polito.it
Fri Jun 1 11:16:21 CEST 2012


Yes this is what i wanted.
thanks indeed!!!

On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 07:40:49 +0000
  Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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