Rename them so that they all have the same number of zero filled leading
digits:
01abc.csv, 02def.csv, ...
'10' comes before '1a' in the stardard sorting sequence.
The other way is to get a list of all your files, parse off the numerics at
the beginning and then sort in numerical order.
On 5/18/07, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi R,
>
>
>
> My csv files are stored in the order, '1abc.csv', '2def.csv',
> '3ghi.csv', '10files.csv' in a folder. When I read this into R from
> list.files (R command: x=list.files("Z:/CSV/fold",full.names=F), I don't
> get the same order, instead I get the order as "10files.csv" "1abc.csv"
> "2def.csv" "3ghi.csv". But I don't want this ordering. So, how do I
> maintain the oder which I have in my physical folder?
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>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Shubha
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