Yes, you can:

m <- matrix( sample(1:5, 20, rep=TRUE), nc=2)
m[ order(m[,1],m[,2]), ]

Gabor

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Bill Hyman <billhym...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a matrix data and would like to sort it by col 1 first and then sort 
> it by col 2. Can I do it in R? Thanks a lot!
>
> Bill
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