Good idea. Done. -G
> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Maechler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:02 AM > To: Warnes, Gregory R > Cc: Andrew Piskorski; R Development Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Rd] natural sorting > > > >>>>> "Greg" == Warnes, Gregory R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:48:46 -0500 writes: > > Greg> The 'mixedsort' function in the 'gtools' package does > Greg> this. It is probably slower than the c version you > Greg> point to, but it is already working in R. > > Thank you, Greg. > > BTW, given the thread, this is a typical example where it might > be very useful to add the following two concepts to the > mixedsort.Rd file in gtools : > > \concept{natural sort} > \concept{dictionary sort} > > so that mixedsort() will be quickly found by > help.search("natural sort") > and possibly also via the java search from the HTML help interface? > (I never use it; I use help.search() {or then RSiteSearch()} > exclusively.) > > Martin > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Andrew Piskorski > >> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:40 AM > >> To: R Development Mailing List > >> Subject: Re: [Rd] natural sorting > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:45:10PM -0500, Gabor > Grothendieck wrote: > >> > It would be nifty to incorporate this into R or into > an R package: > >> > > >> > http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort/ > >> > >> Btw, I haven't looked at the implementation, but Tcl > also contains > >> equivalent functionality, they call it dictionary sort: > >> > >> http://tcl.activestate.com/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/lsort.htm > >> > >> -- > >> Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> http://www.piskorski.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LEGAL NOTICE\ Unless expressly stated otherwise, this messag...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
