i'm sorry. i had an error in my previous code because i left out a
letter in the rownames.
while fixing that, i also found a solution. so i'm sorry for the
confusion.
below is my fix.
temp2 <- matrix(rnorm(10),nc=1,nrow=10)
rownames(temp2) <- c("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j")
print(temp2)
temp2 <- as.matrix(temp2[order(temp2[,1,drop=FALSE]),])
print(temp2)
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:18 AM, markleeds at verizon.net wrote:
this is a bad question but I can't figure it out and i've tried. if i
sort the 2 column
matrix , temp1, by the first column, then things work as expected.
But,
if I sort the 1 column matrix, temp2, then it gets turned coerced to a
vector. I realize that I
need to use drop=FALSE but i've put it in a few different places with
no success. Thanks.
temp1 <- matrix(rnorm(10),nc=2,nrow=5)
rownames(temp1) <- c("a","b","c","d","e")
print(temp2)
temp1 <- temp1[order(temp1[,1]),]
print(temp1)
temp2 <- matrix(rnorm(10),nc=1,nrow=5)
rownames(temp2) <- c("a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i")
print(temp2)
temp2 <- temp2[order(temp2[,1]),] # PROBLEM IS HERE
print(temp2)
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