Very neat...Thank you Dennis..that's what I was looking for.. :)


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Dennis Murphy <djmuser@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> u <- matrix(sample(LETTERS[1:24]), nrow = 8)
> u
>      [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,] "W"  "J"  "M"
> [2,] "K"  "V"  "P"
> [3,] "X"  "E"  "U"
> [4,] "T"  "B"  "N"
> [5,] "I"  "Q"  "F"
> [6,] "G"  "R"  "S"
> [7,] "A"  "C"  "O"
> [8,] "D"  "H"  "L"
>
> t(apply(u, 1, function(x) sort(x)))
>      [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,] "J"  "M"  "W"
> [2,] "K"  "P"  "V"
> [3,] "E"  "U"  "X"
> [4,] "B"  "N"  "T"
> [5,] "F"  "I"  "Q"
> [6,] "G"  "R"  "S"
> [7,] "A"  "C"  "O"
> [8,] "D"  "H"  "L"
>
> HTH,
> Dennis
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:57 AM, sudhir cr <sudhir.cr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have data like this....
>>
>>
>>
>> print(x)
>>
>>
>>
>> ID      VAL1    VAL2
>>
>> 1       B       A
>>
>> 2       P       Q
>>
>> 3       T      S
>>
>>
>>
>> What I would like is data like this...
>>
>>
>>
>> ID      VAL1    VAL2
>>
>> 1       A       B
>>
>> 2       P       Q
>>
>> 3       S      T
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> So that VAL1 and VAL2 are alphabetically ordered.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any advice is welcome!
>>
>>
>>
>> San.
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