Thankyou very much. It worked.
Eliza ________________________________ From: Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday 15 April 2022 17:00 To: Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Cc: R-help <r-help@r-project.org>; Eliza Botto <eliza_bo...@outlook.com> Subject: Re: [R] Sorted index of values in matrix ... But Ivan's solution -- which I had to think about -- is better, and it also generalizes to arbitrary arrays: arrayInd(order(qq), .dim = dim(qq)) Bert Gunter On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 9:25 AM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... and here is another version of Jeff's solution using the built in > row() and col() functions instead of explicitly creating the indices > (but his version generalizes to arbitrary arrays; this does not): > > qq <- matrix(12:7, nrow =3) ## start with a non-sorted matrix > > qq > [,1] [,2] > [1,] 12 9 > [2,] 11 8 > [3,] 10 7 > > sort(qq) > [1] 7 8 9 10 11 12 ## the sorted values > > > o <- order(qq) > > cbind(row(qq)[o], col(qq)[o]) > ## matrix of (row, col) indices of sorted values in original unsorted matrix > [,1] [,2] > [1,] 3 2 > [2,] 2 2 > [3,] 1 2 > [4,] 3 1 > [5,] 2 1 > [6,] 1 1 > > Cheers, > Bert Gunter > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 8:33 AM Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> > wrote: > > > > Please stop posting in HTML format. > > > > I think your specified result coordinates are in (col,row) order, which is > > not normal for R. The solution below yields (row,col) order. > > > > qq <- structure(1:6, .Dim = 3:2, .Dimnames = list(c("1", "2", "3"), c("1", > > "2"))) > > pos <- expand.grid( r = seq.int( nrow( qq ) ) > > , c = seq.int( ncol( qq ) ) ) > > qq #'confirm source layout is column major > > pos[ order( qq ), ] # (row,col) > > pos[ order( qq ), 2:1 ] # (col,row) > > > > > > On April 15, 2022 7:53:36 AM PDT, Eliza Botto <eliza_bo...@outlook.com> > > wrote: > > >deaR useRs, > > > > > >I have this following simple dataset > > > > > >> dput(qq) > > > > > >structure(1:6, .Dim = 3:2, .Dimnames = list(c("1", "2", "3"), > > > c("1", "2"))) > > > > > >I want to extract row and column index of the sorted values of this matrix > > > > > >For example, > > > > > >sort(qq) command will execute the sorted values of this matrix as (1 2 3 4 > > >5 6). Instead of values, I want the row and column names of these sorted > > >values as (1,1), (1,2), (1,3), (2,1), (2,2), (2,3) > > > > > >I thankyou very much in advance for your help. > > > > > >Eliza > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > >______________________________________________ > > >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > >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. > > > > -- > > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.