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 > ... > Dr David Carslaw > King's College London > Environmental Research Group > Franklin Wilkins Building > 150 Stamford Street > London > SE1 9NH > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/difference-in-sort-order-linux-Windows-R-2-11-0-tp2234251p2234251.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joris Meys Statistical Consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control Coupure Links 653 B-9000 Gent tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.