Sort a subset of columns for each row

Question

I want to sort my.data[4:10] in descending order by row. Some clues here, but I could not parse it sufficiently: Sort second to fifth column for each row in R.

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Answer 1

This seems to work fine:

my.data[,4:10] <- t(apply(my.data[,4:10], 1,  function(x) sort(x, na.last = T, decreasing=T)))


#   habitat NumSites NumSamples Sp1 Sp2 Sp3 Sp4 Sp5 Sp6 Sp7
#1    Marsh        3          6   3   1  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
#2  Prairie        3          5   2   2   2  NA  NA  NA  NA
#3  Savanna        4          8  67   3   3   1  NA  NA  NA
#4    Swamp        1          2   2  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
#5 Woodland        4          8   2   1   1   1   1  NA  NA