This is the result of sorting a character sequence on a linux box (with R . 3.10)
> bla = read.table("xx.txt",stringsAsFactors=F) > bla = bla[,1] > bla[1:10] [1] "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" [6] "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0" "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0" "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0" "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0" > sort(bla)[1:10] [1] "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" [6] "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0" "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0" "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0" "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0" "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0" > I will send the result of sorting the content of xx.txt on windows from the windows box in a moment. the file xx.txt can be found at: https://github.com/wolski/imsbInfer/blob/master/xx.txt -- Witold Eryk Wolski ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.