[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Thank you very much to Brian Ripley, Roger Peng, and Andy Liaw. Everyone > pointed out the same solution. > Setting > LC_COLLATE=C > did it. This default setting is indeed odd to me.
It's odd to everyone, except perhaps to the POSIX locale mafia... Once upon a time all dotfile sorted to the top of but nowadays "LANG=da_DK ls -a | less" gives you ... a2ps a2ps-4.13-3.i386.rpm abcd.txt .AbiSuite .ab_library abline.ps .acrobat .acrorc .acrosrch active.rtf ... Oddly enough da_DK does sort names with a leading space before characters, whereas de_DE does not. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
