Oh, please don't report your misunderstandings as bugs. Do at least read the help page first!
Incidentally, the version of `SPlus' (sic) matters critically here. On my RedHat system " 2" < "10" is TRUE, but then I am not in your locale. On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running R version 1.7.1 on 3 different operating systems: > Linux RedHat, Linux Slackware, and Windows 2000. > > R is ordering alpha-numeric character strings in different ways, dependent > on the operating system. [...] And what does it say in ?Comparison it does? > Is this a RedHat problem or an R problem? Another possibility you have overlooked is a Karen Schlauch problem -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel