Suppose we have this kind of data A
And want to sort from the maximum until the minimum value each row
> A
    [1]      [2]          [3]          [4]
[1] 3       7
            9              5
[2] 7       9            11             3
[3] 5       3            7               8
We want to sort A by row and resulting like
this
    [1]      [2]          [3]          [4]
[1] 3       5             7             9
[2] 3       7             9            11
Etc....
We can sort by row by doing this
>Asorted
= t(apply(A,1,sort))  
#sort the data A each
row and input to Asorted data
apply(A,1,sort) means apply for A data set, in 1 (row), and sort them
*1: row, 2: column and (1:2): both of row and column
apply(A,1,sort) means apply for A data set, in 1 (row), and sort them
*1: row, 2: column and (1:2): both of row and column
Yet it will be like this. It will be sorted from the minimum value to the maximum value in each row  (reverse)
[1] [2] [3] [4]
[1] 3       5             7             9
[2] 3       7             9            11
Etc....
What we need to do next is just reverse it
by this command
>Asorted
= Asorted[ ,ncol(Asorted):1]    
#reverse
sequence in column index, and input it (rewrite) to Asorted data
There you go, the result would be like this
>Asorted
    [1]      [2]          [3]          [4]
[1] 9       7             5            3
[2] 11     9             7            3
Etc....

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