> filenames <- c("Q_Read_prist#1...@1.xls", "Q_Read_prist#1...@10.xls",
> "Q_Read_prist#1...@2.xls")
> filenames <- gtools::mixedsort(filenames, numeric.type="decimal")
> filenames
[1] "Q_Read_prist#1...@1.xls" "Q_Read_prist#1...@2.xls"
"Q_Read_prist#1...@10.xls"
/Henrik
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Boris Steipe <boris.ste...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> The thread below has a number of solutions. I personally like the one with
> sprintf().
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-July/246059.html
>
>
> B.
>
> On Dec 4, 2015, at 5:51 AM, BARLAS Marios 247554 <marios.bar...@cea.fr> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am an R rookie and I'm learning as I program.
>>
>> I am working on a script to process a large amount of data: I read a pattern
>> of filenames in the folder I want and import their data
>>
>> filenames = list.files(path, pattern="*Q_Read_prist*")
>>
>> myfiles = lapply(filenames, function(x) read.xlsx2(file=x, sheetName="Data",
>> header=TRUE, FILENAMEVAR=x))
>>
>> The problem is that R recognizes the files in a 'non human' order.
>>
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@1.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@1.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@10.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@10.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@11.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@11.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@12.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@12.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@13.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@13.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@14.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@14.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@15.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@15.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@16.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@16.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@17.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@17.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@18.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@18.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@19.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@19.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@2.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@2.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@3.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@3.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@4.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@4.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@5.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@5.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@6.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@6.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@7.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@7.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@8.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@8.xls
>> Q_Read_prist#1...@9.xls Q_Read_prist#1...@9.xls
>>
>> I tried to order them using order or sort but it doesn' seem to work. I have
>> had the same issue in matlab but there I have a function to re-define the
>> order in a "correct" way.
>>
>> Anyone knows of a smart way to sort these guys from 1 to 19 ascending or
>> descending?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Mario
>>
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