Rotate a Matrix in R by 90 degrees clockwise

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t does not rotate the entries, it flips along the diagonal:

x <- matrix(1:9, 3)
x
##      [,1] [,2] [,3]
## [1,]    1    4    7
## [2,]    2    5    8
## [3,]    3    6    9

t(x)
##      [,1] [,2] [,3]
## [1,]    1    2    3
## [2,]    4    5    6
## [3,]    7    8    9

90 degree clockwise rotation of R matrix:

You need to also reverse the columns prior to the transpose:

rotate <- function(x) t(apply(x, 2, rev))
rotate(x)
##      [,1] [,2] [,3]
## [1,]    3    2    1
## [2,]    6    5    4
## [3,]    9    8    7

rotate(rotate(x))
##      [,1] [,2] [,3]
## [1,]    9    6    3
## [2,]    8    5    2
## [3,]    7    4    1

rotate(rotate(rotate(x)))
##      [,1] [,2] [,3]
## [1,]    7    8    9
## [2,]    4    5    6
## [3,]    1    2    3

rotate(rotate(rotate(rotate(x))))
##      [,1] [,2] [,3]
## [1,]    1    4    7
## [2,]    2    5    8
## [3,]    3    6    9

90 degree counter clockwise rotation of R matrix:

Doing the transpose prior to the reverse is the same as rotate counter clockwise:

foo = matrix(1:9, 3)
foo
## [,1] [,2] [,3]
## [1,]    1    4    7
## [2,]    2    5    8
## [3,]    3    6    9

foo <- apply(t(foo),2,rev)
foo

## [,1] [,2] [,3]
## [1,]    7    8    9
## [2,]    4    5    6
## [3,]    1    2    3

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