[R] get the sorted index of elements within a column

[Dennis Murphy]

> m <- matrix(rpois(16, 10), ncol = 4)
> m
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,]    9   12    8   11
[2,]   12    7   11    8
[3,]   12    7    8    8
[4,]   11   11    4    8
> apply(m, 2, sort)
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,]    9    7    4    8
[2,]   11    7    8    8
[3,]   12   11    8    8
[4,]   12   12   11   11
> apply(m, 2, order)
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,]    1    2    4    2
[2,]    4    3    1    3
[3,]    2    4    3    4
[4,]    3    1    2    1

HTH,
Dennis

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Wendy <wendy2.qiao at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have matrix, A. I want to sort the elements in each column in a ascending
> order and output the index number their position. For example
>
> A =
>
>          [,1]     [,2]      [,3]       [,4]
> [1,] 135.87060 97.55820 121.07722 171.625495
> [2,]  70.19811 36.64529  50.13501   6.319125
> [3,]  26.86293 24.22025  43.42826  26.952587
> [4,]   1.88864 54.97618  12.50913 103.958836
>
> I want the output, B, to be
>
> B =
>
>     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
> [1,]    4    4    4    4
> [2,]    3    2    3    1
> [3,]    2    1    2    2
> [4,]    1    3    1    3
>
> I tried "apply(test,1,order)", but it did not work. Could anybody please
> help? Thank you very much.
>
> Wendy
>
>
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