On Dec 22, 2009, at 4:18 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
As the help says
The sort order for character vectors will depend on the collating
sequence of the locale in use: see ‘Comparison’.
and that ref says
Collation of
non-letters (spaces, punctuation signs, hyphens, fractions a
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
That different OSes use the same name for a locale does not make them the
same locale.
Note that R can be compiled to use ICU, which provides a well-considered
collation suite. R on Mac OS X uses ICU, as does a Linux bui
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
That different OSes use the same name for a locale does not make them
the same locale.
Note that R can be compiled to use ICU, which provides a well-considered
collation suite. R on Mac OS X uses ICU, as does a Linux build if it is
available -- so I would say that
As the help says
The sort order for character vectors will depend on the collating
sequence of the locale in use: see ‘Comparison’.
and that ref says
Collation of
non-letters (spaces, punctuation signs, hyphens, fractions and so
on) is even more problematic.
That diffe
Full_Name: Jeffrey Sullivan
Version: 2.10
OS: Mac
Submission from: (NULL) (130.154.0.250)
Sort produces different results when sorting strings with non-alphanumeric
characters, depending on the operating system:
RHEL 5.2, R 2.10.0
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> v <- c("1","<0",">3","2")
> Sys.setlocale("LC_COL
