HI, I guess this might be what you want. dat1<-structure(c(0.585528817843856, 0.709466017509524, 0, -0.453497173462763, 0.605887455840393, -1.81795596770373, 0.630098551068391, -0.276184105225216, -0.284159743943371, -0.919322002474128, -0.116247806352002, 1.81731204370422, 0.370627864257954, 0.520216457554957, -0.750531994502331, 0.816899839520583, -0.886357521243213, -0.331577589942552, 1.12071265166956, 0.298723699267293, 0.779621924555324, 0, -0.644328429231302, -1.55313740522969, -1.59770951669631, 1.80509751881082, -0.481647363694637, 0.620379801298422, 0.612123492650849, -0.162310976918126, 0.81187317855386, 2.19683354634753, 2.04919033740619, 1.63244563948047, 0.254271192814055, 0.491188279272559, -0.324086578737118, -1.66205024385863, 1.76773385087297, 0, 1.12851083359018, -2.38035806139704, -1.06026555215253, 0.937140540182908, 0.854451720330554, 1.46072940310409, -1.4130987778892, 0.567403253424482, 0.583187653435685, -1.30679883346442), .Dim = c(5L, 10L)) colnames(dat1)<-paste0("x",1:10) dat2<-apply(dat1,2,sort,decreasing=TRUE) dat2[-which(rowSums(dat2==0)>0),] # x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 #[1,] 0.7094660 0.6300986 1.817312 1.1207127 0.7796219 1.8050975 2.1968335 #[2,] -0.4534972 -1.8179560 -0.750532 -0.8863575 -1.5977095 -0.4816474 0.2542712 # x8 x9 x10 #[1,] 1.767734 1.128511 1.460729 #[2,] -1.662050 -2.380358 -1.413099 A.K.
----- Original Message ----- From: Nico Met <nicome...@gmail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:24 AM Subject: [R] Sorting of columns of a matrix Dear all, Please suggest me how can I do it. I have a matrix which look like following: x1 x2 x3 t1 .01 0.3 0 t2 0 0.1 0.01 t3 0 .01 .01 t4 0 0 t5 5 0 0 t6 0 0 0 t7 0 0 0 t8 0 0 0 t9 0.6 0 0 t10 0 0 0.66 t11 0 0.6 0.11 t12 0 0.4 0 I want to sort decreasing order in each column based on rows. and then to display only those rows which has a value. The expected out put matrix will look like x1 x2 x3 t9 0.6 t11 0.6 t10 0.66 t1 .01 t12 0.4 t11 0.11 t1 0.3 t2 .01 t2 0.1 t3 .01 many thanks Nico [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.