I'm not an expert on Locales but those that are getting this behavior and
those that aren't appear to be different. (in fact, all three sets are
slightly different).
Isn't sorting order based on Locale rather than any internal R code anyway?
~G
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 07/12/11 15:48, Joris Meys wrote:
> > @Barry : regardless of whether '_' comes before or after '1' , it
> > should be consistent. Adding an 'a' shouldn't shift '_' from
> > before '1' to between '1' and '2', that's clearly an error. The
> > help files are not stating anything about that. The only thing I
> > can imagine, is that '_' gets ignored (in that case 19a would rank
> > before 1a).
> >
> > This said, I can't reproduce.
>
> I can:
>
> > x <- c("_1_", "1_9", "2_9") xa <- paste(x,'a',sep='') rank(x)
> [1] 1 2 3
> > rank(xa)
> [1] 2 1 3
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
> > version
> _
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch i686
> os linux-gnu
> system i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major 2
> minor 14.0
> year 2011
> month 10
> day 31
> svn rev 57496
> language R
> version.string R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
> >
>
> Interesting.
>
> Rainer
>
>
> >
> >> x <- c("_1_", "1_9", "2_9") xa <- paste(x,'a',sep='') rank(x)
> > [1] 1 2 3
> >> rank(xa)
> > [1] 1 2 3
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.14.0 Patched (2006-00-00 r00000) Platform:
> > i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> >
> > locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> > LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United
> > States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> > LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> >
> > attached base packages: [1] grDevices datasets splines graphics
> > stats tcltk utils methods base
> >
> > other attached packages: [1] svSocket_0.9-51 TinnR_1.0.3
> > R2HTML_2.2 Hmisc_3.8-3 survival_2.36-9
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] cluster_1.14.1
> > grid_2.14.0 lattice_0.19-33 svMisc_0.9-63 tools_2.14.0
> >
> >
> > 2011/12/7 Hervé Pagès <hpa...@fhcrc.org>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This looks OK:
> >>
> >>> x <- c("_1_", "1_9", "2_9") rank(x)
> >> [1] 1 2 3
> >>
> >> But this does not:
> >>
> >>> xa <- paste(x, "a", sep="") xa
> >> [1] "_1_a" "1_9a" "2_9a"
> >>> rank(xa)
> >> [1] 2 1 3
> >>
> >> Cheers, H.
> >>
> >>> sessionInfo()
> >> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> (64-bit)
> >>
> >> locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3]
> >> LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8 [5]
> >> LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=C
> >> LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11]
> >> LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >>
> >> attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils
> >> datasets methods base
> >>
> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.14.0
> >>
> >>
> >> -- Hervé Pagès
> >>
> >> Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health
> >> Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview
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> >>
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> >> 667-1319
> >>
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>
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