On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Dat Mai <dat.d....@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, but I want to make it so that 2 different square matrices to both have > the same order for the x and y axis while, at the same time, the x and y > axis having variables in the same order as well: > > a b c d e ... > a Outputs here------------> > b | > c | > d | > e V > . > . > . > > Both matrices 1 and 2 should look like this. That way, comparing them via a > heatmap would be much easier. > > That command would only serve or order each matrix individually by the > values in column 1. The problem with this is that both matrices in question > do not have the same or similar values for each output. Therefore, both > matrices would be ordered by some column I choose, but will not be in the > same order.
Sorry - I didn't know that you were trying to order by the dimnames of the matrix. In that case, you should be able to do something like the following: > #row and column names > dnames<-c('a','b','c','d','e') > #matrix with rows and columns in correct order > mat1<-matrix(rnorm(25),ncol=5,dimnames=list(dnames,dnames)) > > #random order for row and column names > rnames1<-sample(dnames,5) > rnames2<-sample(dnames,5) > #matrix with rows and columns in incorrect order > mat2<-matrix(rnorm(25),ncol=5,dimnames=list(rnames1,rnames2)) > mat2 d c b a e c -0.04923684 0.4765760 0.43840872 -0.5524667 -0.2905828 d -0.32432997 0.4206066 0.47332957 -0.4519173 -0.4126728 e 0.61084905 -0.6585749 0.06420868 1.7143967 -1.4071063 a 1.58412898 -1.4497131 -1.03201925 1.5232362 1.9599125 b 0.85896345 -1.4203311 -0.12717927 0.2900827 -1.0357730 > > #mat2 with rows and columns in correct order > mat3<-mat2[order(dimnames(mat2)[[1]]),order(dimnames(mat2)[[2]])] > mat3 a b c d e a 1.5232362 -1.03201925 -1.4497131 1.58412898 1.9599125 b 0.2900827 -0.12717927 -1.4203311 0.85896345 -1.0357730 c -0.5524667 0.43840872 0.4765760 -0.04923684 -0.2905828 d -0.4519173 0.47332957 0.4206066 -0.32432997 -0.4126728 e 1.7143967 0.06420868 -0.6585749 0.61084905 -1.4071063 > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.