Change row order in a matrix/dataframe

Question

I need to change/invert rows in my data frame, not transposing the data but moving the bottom row to the top and so on. If the data frame was:

1 2 3 
4 5 6
7         


        

Answer 1

There probably are more elegant ways, but this works:

m <- matrix(1:9, ncol=3, byrow=TRUE)

# m[rev(seq_len(nrow(m))), ]  # Initial answer
m[nrow(m):1, ]
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    7    8    9
[2,]    4    5    6
[3,]    1    2    3

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This works because you are indexing the matrix with a reversed sequence of integers as the row index. nrow(m):1 results in 3 2 1.