[R] Programming puzzle...

[Jonathan Rougier]

Hi Ron -- Too tempting!  I would try something like

woppa <- matrix(1:120, 30, 4)
colorder <- do.call("order", split(woppa, row(woppa)))

Cheers, Jonathan.

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Ron Wehrens wrote:

> I'd like to sort the columns of a matrix according to the elements in the
> first row, and in case of a tie according to the second row, etc.
> In case of a 3xn matrix woppa, something like
> 
> colorder _ order(woppa[1,], woppa[2,], woppa[3,])
> 
> I just cannot seem to find a way to do this for a variable number of rows,
> e.g. if woppa has 10 or 15 rows I now manually cut and paste to have 10 - 15
> arguments in the order function. There has to be a clever way to do this...

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