[R] sorting a matrix by a different colnames order

Hi R users, I would like to know how to sort a matrix according a different order of colnames (or rownames) ,e.g., mx = matrix(rnorm(1:20),5,4) colnames(mx) = letters[1:4] rownames(mx) = letters[1:5] mx a b c d a 0.02362598 -0.7033460 0.8106089

Re: [R] sorting a matrix by a different colnames order

try: mx[,new.col.names] HTH. On 2/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi R users, I would like to know how to sort a matrix according a different order of colnames (or rownames) ,e.g., mx = matrix(rnorm(1:20),5,4) colnames(mx) = letters[1:4] rownames(mx) = letters[1:5] mx

Re: [R] sorting a matrix by a different colnames order

mx = matrix(rnorm(1:20),5,4) colnames(mx) = letters[1:4] rownames(mx) = letters[1:5] mx a b c d a -0.6264538 -0.8204684 1.5117812 -0.04493361 b 0.1836433 0.4874291 0.3898432 -0.01619026 c -0.8356286 0.7383247 -0.6212406 0.94383621 d 1.5952808