R - Sorting and Sub-setting Maximum Values within Columns -


i trying iteratively sort data within columns extract n maximum values.

my data set first , second columns containing occupation titles , codes, , of rest of columns containing comparative values (in case location quotients had calculated each city) occupations various cities:

    *occ_code  city1  ...   city300*      occ1      5      ...    7      occ2      20     ...   22      .         .       .     .      .         .       .     .      occ800    20     ...   25 

for each city want sort maximum values, select subset of maximum values matched respective occupations titles , titles. thought relatively trivial but...

edit clarification: want end sorted subset of data analysis.

     occ_code   city1      occ200     10      occ90      8      occ20      2      occ95      1.5 

at same time want able repeat sort column-wise (so i've tried lots of order commands through calling columns directly: data[,2]; able run same analysis functions on entire dataset.

i've been messing plyr past 3 days , feel setup of dataset not conducive how plyer meant used.

i'm not sure desired output according example snippit. here's how data frame every city using plyr , reshape

#using same df nico's answer library(reshape) df.m <- melt(df, id = 1) a.cities <- cast(df.m, codes ~ . | variable)  library(plyr) a.cities.max <- aaply(a.cities, 1, function(x) arrange(x, desc(`(all)`))[1:4,]) 

now, a.cities.max array of data frames, 4 largest values each city in each data frame. 1 of these data frames, can index with

a.cities.max$x13 

i don't know you'll doing data, might want in data frame format.

df.cities.max <- adply(a.cities.max, 1) 

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