[R] Does split() preserve order?

[Charles C. Berry]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Alistair Gee wrote:

> If x is a vector (or data frame) that is in a particular order, and I
> call split(x, f) to partition x, will the elements of each partition
> remain in order?

They must for example( split ) to work as advertised, viz.


 	### Calculate z-scores by group

 	z <- unsplit(lapply(split(x, g), scale), g)

HTH,

Chuck



>
> That is, is the following assertion always TRUE?
>
> for(i in split(x, f)) {
>  stopifnot(!is.unsorted(i))
> }
>
> I suspect that this is the case, but the help page does not discuss
> preservation of order in the result of split().
>
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