Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
Thanks.
- Original Message -
From: "Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendi...@gmail.com>
To: "Sebastien Bihorel" <sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com>
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 3:49:10 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
split any mixed columns into letter and number columns
and then order can be used on that:
DF <- data.frame(x = c("a10", "a2", "a1"))
o <- do.call("order", transform(DF, let = gsub("\\d", "", x),
no =
as.numeric(gsub("\\D", "", x)),
x = NULL))
DF[o,, drop = FALSE ]
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:15 AM, Sebastien Bihorel
<sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Searching for functions that would order strings that mix characters and
> numbers in a "natural" way (ie, "a1 a2 a10" instead of "a1 a10 a2"), I found
> the mixedsort and mixedorder from the gtools package.
>
> Problems:
> 1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call like
> the order function does
> 2- gtools has not been updated in 2.5 years
>
> Are you aware of an equivalent of this function in base R or a another
> contributed package (with correction of problem #1)?
>
> Thanks
>
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Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
split any mixed columns into letter and number columns
and then order can be used on that:
DF <- data.frame(x = c("a10", "a2", "a1"))
o <- do.call("order", transform(DF, let = gsub("\\d", "", x),
no =
as.numeric(gsub("\\D", "", x)),
x = NULL))
DF[o,, drop = FALSE ]
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:15 AM, Sebastien Bihorel
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Searching for functions that would order strings that mix characters and
> numbers in a "natural" way (ie, "a1 a2 a10" instead of "a1 a10 a2"), I found
> the mixedsort and mixedorder from the gtools package.
>
> Problems:
> 1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call like
> the order function does
> 2- gtools has not been updated in 2.5 years
>
> Are you aware of an equivalent of this function in base R or a another
> contributed package (with correction of problem #1)?
>
> Thanks
>
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Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
Thanks for your reply. I take this is also a no to my question and appreciated
the suggested mixedrank function and its usage with do.call.
Thanks
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From: "Jeff Newmiller" <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>
To: "Bert Gunter" <bgunter.4...@gmail.com>
Cc: "Sebastien Bihorel" <sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com>, "R-help"
<r-help@r-project.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 2:11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
x <- c( "a1", "a10", "a2" )
y <- c( "b10", "b2", "a12", "ca1" )
DF <- expand.grid( x = x, y = y )
# randomize
set.seed( 42 )
DF <- DF[ sample( nrow( DF ) ), ]
# missing from gtools
mixedrank <- function( x ) {
seq.int( length( x ) )[ gtools::mixedorder(x) ]
}
o <- do.call( order, lapply( DF, mixedrank ) )
DF[ o, ]
# or, as Bert suggests:
myrank <- function( v ) {
vu <- unique(v)
vl <- regmatches( vu,regexec("^([A-Za-z]+)(\\d+)$",vu))
alph <- sapply( vl, function(s) s[2] )
digt <- as.integer( sapply( vl, function(s) s[3] ) )
o <- order( alph, digt )
vo <- ordered( v, levels=vu[ o ] )
}
o2 <- do.call( order, lapply( DF, myrank ) )
DF[ o2, ]
?order
?ordered
?rank
On Sun, 11 Mar 2018, Bert Gunter wrote:
> ???
>
>> y <- sort( c("a1","a2","a10","a12","a100"))
>> y
> [1] "a1" "a10" "a100" "a12" "a2"
>> mixedsort(y)
> [1] "a1" "a2" "a10" "a12" "a100"
>
> **Please read the docs!** They say that mixedsort() and mixedorder() both
> take a **single vector** as the argument to be sorted or ordered and, as
> the above indicates, they perform exactly as advertised. **Unlike
> order()**. So of course your do.call() construction fails.
>
> So presumably you have a data frame with multiple columns of mixed alpha
> and numerics? (A reproducible example would be most helpful here.)
>
> If this is the case, one **possibly dumb** approach (you have been warned!)
> would be to turn each column into an ordered factor and then call order()
> on the data frame of ordered factors via do.call() as above. i.e.
>
>> y1 <- ordered(y,lev = mixedsort(y))
>> y1
> [1] a1 a10 a100 a12 a2
> Levels: a1 < a2 < a10 < a12 < a100
>> order(y1)
> [1] 1 5 2 4 3
>
> (this is just for 1 vector to show how the idea would work).
>
> Of course, if this is **not** what you want, you'll need to clarify,
> hopefully with a reprex. Or hope that someone else has better insight than
> I.
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
>
>
>
> Bert Gunter
>
> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
> sticking things into it."
> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Sebastien Bihorel <
> sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Searching for functions that would order strings that mix characters and
>> numbers in a "natural" way (ie, "a1 a2 a10" instead of "a1 a10 a2"), I
>> found the mixedsort and mixedorder from the gtools package.
>>
>> Problems:
>> 1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call
>> like the order function does
>> 2- gtools has not been updated in 2.5 years
>>
>> Are you aware of an equivalent of this function in base R or a another
>> contributed package (with correction of problem #1)?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
Hi,
Point taken... although this error is not returned in older version of R (3.1.2
does not have any issue with your test case... not sure when the added layer of
check was introduced).
From: "William Dunlap" <wdun...@tibco.com>
To: "Sebastien Bihorel" <sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com>
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 10:56:43 AM
Subject: Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call like
the order function does
This is tangential, but do.call(order, mydataframe) is not safe to use in a
general purpose function either - you need to remove the names from
the second argument:
> d <- data.frame(method=c("New","New","Old","Old","Old"), result=5:1)
> do.call(order, d)
Error in match.arg(method) : 'arg' must be NULL or a character vector
> do.call(order, unname(as.list(d)))
[1] 2 1 5 4 3
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap [ http://tibco.com/ | tibco.com ]
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Sebastien Bihorel < [
mailto:sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com | sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com
] > wrote:
Hi,
Searching for functions that would order strings that mix characters and
numbers in a "natural" way (ie, "a1 a2 a10" instead of "a1 a10 a2"), I found
the mixedsort and mixedorder from the gtools package.
Problems:
1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call like
the order function does
2- gtools has not been updated in 2.5 years
Are you aware of an equivalent of this function in base R or a another
contributed package (with correction of problem #1)?
Thanks
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Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
So I take this is a no to my initial question.
Cheers too.
PS: some users just ask questions to get straight answers not to get a solution
to their problem :D
From: "Bert Gunter" <bgunter.4...@gmail.com>
To: "Sebastien Bihorel" <sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com>
Cc: "R-help" <r-help@r-project.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 12:57:00 AM
Subject: Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
???
> y <- sort( c("a1","a2","a10","a12","a100"))
> y
[1] "a1" "a10" "a100" "a12" "a2"
> mixedsort(y)
[1] "a1" "a2" "a10" "a12" "a100"
**Please read the docs!** They say that mixedsort() and mixedorder() both take
a **single vector** as the argument to be sorted or ordered and, as the above
indicates, they perform exactly as advertised. **Unlike order()**. So of course
your do.call() construction fails.
So presumably you have a data frame with multiple columns of mixed alpha and
numerics? (A reproducible example would be most helpful here.)
If this is the case, one **possibly dumb** approach (you have been warned!)
would be to turn each column into an ordered factor and then call order() on
the data frame of ordered factors via do.call() as above. i.e.
> y1 <- ordered(y,lev = mixedsort(y))
> y1
[1] a1 a10 a100 a12 a2
Levels: a1 < a2 < a10 < a12 < a100
> order(y1)
[1] 1 5 2 4 3
(this is just for 1 vector to show how the idea would work).
Of course, if this is **not** what you want, you'll need to clarify, hopefully
with a reprex. Or hope that someone else has better insight than I.
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Sebastien Bihorel < [
mailto:sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com | sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com
] > wrote:
Hi,
Searching for functions that would order strings that mix characters and
numbers in a "natural" way (ie, "a1 a2 a10" instead of "a1 a10 a2"), I found
the mixedsort and mixedorder from the gtools package.
Problems:
1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call like
the order function does
2- gtools has not been updated in 2.5 years
Are you aware of an equivalent of this function in base R or a another
contributed package (with correction of problem #1)?
Thanks
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Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)"
call like the order function does
This is tangential, but do.call(order, mydataframe) is not safe to use in a
general purpose function either - you need to remove the names from
the second argument:
> d <- data.frame(method=c("New","New","Old","Old","Old"), result=5:1)
> do.call(order, d)
Error in match.arg(method) : 'arg' must be NULL or a character vector
> do.call(order, unname(as.list(d)))
[1] 2 1 5 4 3
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Sebastien Bihorel <
sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Searching for functions that would order strings that mix characters and
> numbers in a "natural" way (ie, "a1 a2 a10" instead of "a1 a10 a2"), I
> found the mixedsort and mixedorder from the gtools package.
>
> Problems:
> 1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call
> like the order function does
> 2- gtools has not been updated in 2.5 years
>
> Are you aware of an equivalent of this function in base R or a another
> contributed package (with correction of problem #1)?
>
> Thanks
>
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Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
x <- c( "a1", "a10", "a2" )
y <- c( "b10", "b2", "a12", "ca1" )
DF <- expand.grid( x = x, y = y )
# randomize
set.seed( 42 )
DF <- DF[ sample( nrow( DF ) ), ]
# missing from gtools
mixedrank <- function( x ) {
seq.int( length( x ) )[ gtools::mixedorder(x) ]
}
o <- do.call( order, lapply( DF, mixedrank ) )
DF[ o, ]
# or, as Bert suggests:
myrank <- function( v ) {
vu <- unique(v)
vl <- regmatches( vu,regexec("^([A-Za-z]+)(\\d+)$",vu))
alph <- sapply( vl, function(s) s[2] )
digt <- as.integer( sapply( vl, function(s) s[3] ) )
o <- order( alph, digt )
vo <- ordered( v, levels=vu[ o ] )
}
o2 <- do.call( order, lapply( DF, myrank ) )
DF[ o2, ]
?order
?ordered
?rank
On Sun, 11 Mar 2018, Bert Gunter wrote:
???
y <- sort( c("a1","a2","a10","a12","a100"))
y
[1] "a1" "a10" "a100" "a12" "a2"
mixedsort(y)
[1] "a1" "a2" "a10" "a12" "a100"
**Please read the docs!** They say that mixedsort() and mixedorder() both
take a **single vector** as the argument to be sorted or ordered and, as
the above indicates, they perform exactly as advertised. **Unlike
order()**. So of course your do.call() construction fails.
So presumably you have a data frame with multiple columns of mixed alpha
and numerics? (A reproducible example would be most helpful here.)
If this is the case, one **possibly dumb** approach (you have been warned!)
would be to turn each column into an ordered factor and then call order()
on the data frame of ordered factors via do.call() as above. i.e.
y1 <- ordered(y,lev = mixedsort(y))
y1
[1] a1 a10 a100 a12 a2
Levels: a1 < a2 < a10 < a12 < a100
order(y1)
[1] 1 5 2 4 3
(this is just for 1 vector to show how the idea would work).
Of course, if this is **not** what you want, you'll need to clarify,
hopefully with a reprex. Or hope that someone else has better insight than
I.
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Sebastien Bihorel <
sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com> wrote:
Hi,
Searching for functions that would order strings that mix characters and
numbers in a "natural" way (ie, "a1 a2 a10" instead of "a1 a10 a2"), I
found the mixedsort and mixedorder from the gtools package.
Problems:
1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call
like the order function does
2- gtools has not been updated in 2.5 years
Are you aware of an equivalent of this function in base R or a another
contributed package (with correction of problem #1)?
Thanks
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Re: [R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
???
> y <- sort( c("a1","a2","a10","a12","a100"))
> y
[1] "a1" "a10" "a100" "a12" "a2"
> mixedsort(y)
[1] "a1" "a2" "a10" "a12" "a100"
**Please read the docs!** They say that mixedsort() and mixedorder() both
take a **single vector** as the argument to be sorted or ordered and, as
the above indicates, they perform exactly as advertised. **Unlike
order()**. So of course your do.call() construction fails.
So presumably you have a data frame with multiple columns of mixed alpha
and numerics? (A reproducible example would be most helpful here.)
If this is the case, one **possibly dumb** approach (you have been warned!)
would be to turn each column into an ordered factor and then call order()
on the data frame of ordered factors via do.call() as above. i.e.
> y1 <- ordered(y,lev = mixedsort(y))
> y1
[1] a1 a10 a100 a12 a2
Levels: a1 < a2 < a10 < a12 < a100
> order(y1)
[1] 1 5 2 4 3
(this is just for 1 vector to show how the idea would work).
Of course, if this is **not** what you want, you'll need to clarify,
hopefully with a reprex. Or hope that someone else has better insight than
I.
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Sebastien Bihorel <
sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Searching for functions that would order strings that mix characters and
> numbers in a "natural" way (ie, "a1 a2 a10" instead of "a1 a10 a2"), I
> found the mixedsort and mixedorder from the gtools package.
>
> Problems:
> 1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call
> like the order function does
> 2- gtools has not been updated in 2.5 years
>
> Are you aware of an equivalent of this function in base R or a another
> contributed package (with correction of problem #1)?
>
> Thanks
>
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[R] Equivalent of gtools::mixedsort in R base
Hi, Searching for functions that would order strings that mix characters and numbers in a "natural" way (ie, "a1 a2 a10" instead of "a1 a10 a2"), I found the mixedsort and mixedorder from the gtools package. Problems: 1- mixedorder does not work in a "do.call(mixedorder, mydataframe)" call like the order function does 2- gtools has not been updated in 2.5 years Are you aware of an equivalent of this function in base R or a another contributed package (with correction of problem #1)? Thanks __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
