Pretty obvious: You use different locales (collate). What happens if you use
the same on both machines?

Cheers
Joris

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:17 AM, carslaw <david.cars...@kcl.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Dear R users,
>
> I'm a bit perplexed with the effect sort has here, as it is different on
> ...
>  the linux order is perhaps more intuitive.  However, the problem is the
> order is inconsistent between
>  the two systems.  Any suggestions?
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8          LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8           LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.utf8       LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.utf8          LC_NAME=en_GB.utf8
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.utf8        LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.utf8
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.utf8    LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.utf8
> ...
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
> x86_64-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
> ...
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