Hello, Please provide your sessionInfo(). I don't see this issue with R 3.1.0 Patched on Linux.
Regards, Pascal On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Marius Hofert <marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > If I use invisible(Sys.setlocale("LC_COLLATE", "C")) in ~/.Rprofile, then > >> sort(c("L.Y", "Lu", "L.Q")) > [1] "L.Q" "L.Y" "Lu" > > whereas using invisible(Sys.setlocale("LC_COLLATE", "en_US.UTF-8")) results in > >> sort(c("L.Y", "Lu", "L.Q")) > [1] "L.Q" "Lu" "L.Y" > > I know this issue has appeared already > (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help//2012-February/304089.html), I > just don't see a reason for the second output: either '.' comes before > letters, then the result should be > "L.Q" "L.Y" "Lu" or it comes afterwards, then it should be "Lu" "L.Q" > "L.Y" -- the above result thus seems inconsistent to any useful notion > of 'sort' (?) > > Cheers, > > Marius > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Pascal Oettli Project Scientist JAMSTEC Yokohama, Japan ______________________________________________ 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.