Dear Ashley,
Try this:

x[,1] <- sort(x[,1])
x

See ?sort for more details.

HTH,

Jorge


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:07 PM, ashley2000 <ashley.askew2000@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
> x <-
>
> matrix(c(1239,10,10,10,10,1234,10,10,10,10,1500,11,11,11,11,1001,11,11,11,11,
>
>
> 1009,11,11,11,11,1344,12,12,12,12,1349,12,12,12,12,1458,13,13,13,13),8,5,byrow
> = T)
>
> > x
>     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
> [1,] 1239   10   10   10   10
> [2,] 1234   10   10   10   10
> [3,] 1500   11   11   11   11
> [4,] 1001   11   11   11   11
> [5,] 1009   11   11   11   11
> [6,] 1344   12   12   12   12
> [7,] 1349   12   12   12   12
> [8,] 1458   13   13   13   13
>
> I tried to sort by 1st column, but stayed the other columns as they were. I
> mean
>
>
>
>     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
> [2,] 1234   10   10   10   10
> [1,] 1239   10   10   10   10
> --------------------------------------
> [4,] 1001   11   11   11   11
> [5,] 1009   11   11   11   11
> [3,] 1500   11   11   11   11
> --------------------------------------
> [6,] 1344   12   12   12   12
> [7,] 1349   12   12   12   12
> --------------------------------------
> [8,] 1458   13   13   13   13
>
>
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thanks
>
> ashley
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