Would this do what you want?
Cheers,
Jerome
> foo.dat <- cbind(c(NA, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), c(NA, NA, 0, 10 ,20, 30))
> apply(foo.dat,2,function(x) x[order(as.logical(x))])
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1 0
[2,] 2 10
[3,] 3 20
[4,] 4 30
[5,] 5 NA
[6,] NA NA
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 12:42, Tim Sharac wrote:
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> Hi R-users:
>
> I have a data formatting question. I have a data set that looks something
> like this:
>
> foo.dat <- cbind(c(NA, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), c(NA, NA, 0, 10 ,20, 30))
>
> What I have:
>
> [,1] [,2]
> [1,] NA NA
> [2,] 1 NA
> [3,] 2 0
> [4,] 3 10
> [5,] 4 20
> [6,] 5 30
>
>
> I want to line up the columns by the first value that is not NA. Like so:
>
> [,1] [,2]
> [1,] 1 0
> [2,] 2 10
> [3,] 3 20
> [4,] 4 30
> [5,] 5 NA
> [6,] NA NA
>
> Question is: Is there an elegant way to do this without a for loop?
>
> I tried doing this with na.omit and na.exclude without success.
>
> The real data is many hundreds of columns and many thousands of rows.
>
> Thanks in advance, Tim
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