sort matrix based on a specific order

Define them as factors with a specified order for your sorting.

e.g.

x <- factor(your_data, levels = c('c', 'b','d', 'a'))
Hi I have a character matrix with 2 columns A and B, If I want to sort the matrix based on the column B, but based on a specific order of characters:

mat<-cbind(c('w','x','y','z'),c('a','b','c','d'))
ind<-c('c','b','d','a')

I want "mat" to be sorted by the sequence in "ind":

     [,1] [,2]
[1,] "y"  "c"
[2,] "x"  "b"
[3,] "z"  "d"
[4,] "w"  "a"

Is there any simple function that can do this?

Thanks

John

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sort matrix based on a specific order

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