title: Is there any way to sort columns of a matrix independently in R?
body: <p>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!</p>
  
  <pre><code> &gt; mat &lt;- matrix(c(45,34,1,3,4325,23,1,2,5,7,3,4,32,734,2),ncol=3)
   &gt; mat
        [,1] [,2] [,3]
   [1,]   45   23    3
   [2,]   34    1    4
   [3,]    1    2   32
   [4,]    3    5  734
   [5,] 4325    7    2
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to</p>
  
  <pre><code>      [,1] [,2] [,3]
   [1,]    1    1    2
   [2,]    3    2    3
   [3,]   34    5    4
   [4,]   45    7   32
   [5,] 4325    23 734
  </code></pre>