Hello,
I am running R 1.7.1 on two platforms and it seems to me that order() behaves differently on them. I noticed this when a test case passed in linux but failed on solaris. This is the behavior on the solaris platform:
R.Version() $platform [1] "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"
[SNIP]
x <- c("a", "b", "c", "(d") sort(x)
[1] "(d" "a" "b" "c"
This is the behavior on the linux platform:
R.Version()
$platform [1] "i686-pc-linux-gnu"
[SNIP]
sort(x)
[1] "a" "b" "c" "(d"
Am I missing something here or is there really a difference in the way order() works on different platforms? Thanks for your help.
You missed to read the help page. ?sort tells us:
"The sort order for character vectors will depend on the collating sequence of the locale in use: see Comparison."
Please follow that reference and read ?Comparison as well.
Uwe Ligges
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