On 2012-2-20 23:15, Rui Barradas wrote:
Could it be OS related?
Yes, it seems. I tried it on my local windows xp and redhat linux server, and got different results. Hope it will be fixed in the future versions. Maybe we should keep alert to check whether the results are consistent when transferring our code from one platform to another.
> sort(c("X.","X0B")) [1] "X." "X0B" > sort(c("X.Z","X0B.Z")) [1] "X0B.Z" "X.Z" > R.version _ platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu arch x86_64 os linux-gnu system x86_64, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 9.1 year 2009 month 06 day 26 svn rev 48839 language R version.string R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26) > sort(c("X.","X0B")) [1] "X." "X0B" > sort(c("X.Z","X0B.Z")) [1] "X.Z" "X0B.Z" > R.version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 13.0 year 2011 month 04 day 13 svn rev 55427 language R version.string R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.