Row wise Sorting in R

Question

I would like to how to do a row wise sorting in csv using R. Here\'s the following data I have

Name  English Math  French
John    56    78    86
Sam     79           


        

Answer 1

You can try:

cbind(x[1],matrix(paste(colnames(x)[apply(x[,2:4],1,order,decreasing=TRUE)+1],
      apply(x[,2:4],1,sort,decreasing=TRUE)),ncol=3,byrow=TRUE))
#  Name          1         2          3
#1 John  French 86   Math 78 English 56
#2  Sam    Math 97 French 86 English 79
#3 Viru English 93   Math 44  French 34