2011/12/7 Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>: > 2011/12/7 Joris Meys <jorism...@gmail.com>: >> @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. > > That's an assumption. The help pages are quite clear about making > assumptions. > I used the word 'error' too quickly. Translate 'error' into 'unexpected behaviour'. I also see now that assuming all characters are actually used is an assumption one shouldn't make. But that's not what I understood from the help text and the examples therein. Thanks for the clarification.
I sincerely hope though that I can assume the sort order, using the same locale, is always going to be the same. Otherwise order(x) starts to look scaringly close to sample(seq_len(x))... Cheers Joris -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bio-Informatics tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
