Re: ordering a large matrix and referring to the named rows later
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- Subject: [mg75357] Re: ordering a large matrix and referring to the named rows later
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:34:22 -0400 (EDT)
On 4/25/07 at 5:43 AM, puretexan at gmail.com (newbie) wrote:
>Hi, I have a large matrix {5165, 26}, the first row and first 8
>columns identify the values in the matrix. I need to be able to
>sort the data without losing the ability to reference the
>labels. Any ideas? Thank you very much for any help!
Let mat be your matrix, then
mat[[Join[{1},Ordering[Rest[mat][[All,n]]]]]
where n is the column you want to have sorted should do what you want
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