Is there any way to sort columns of a matrix independently in R?

Question

I\'m a newbie in R so, I really need some help here. I just want to sort each column independently. Any help is appreciated!

 > mat <- matrix(c(45,34,1         


        

Answer 1

Yes, there is!

apply(mat, 2, sort)
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    1    2
[2,]    3    2    3
[3,]   34    5    4
[4,]   45    7   32
[5,] 4325   23  734