[R] how to order each element according to alphabet

[David Winsemius]

On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:19 PM, onthetopo wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  There are many more patterns than VL to LV.  In fact, too many to be
> listed manually.

>
> For example ML should be ordered as LM, QL should be ordered as LQ.
> The order is according to the alphabet.

A more complete (reproducible) answer would have been appreciated and  
note that local custom dictates that context is offered for ongoing  
threads. Nabble provides a mechanism for doing so.

 >lets2 <- paste(LETTERS[sample(20, replace=TRUE)],
                 LETTERS[sample(20, replace=TRUE)],
                 sep="")
 > lets2
  [1] "IA" "EP" "TE" "IT" "PS" "DO" "RO" "EJ" "DR" "DD" "LM" "OF" "RJ"  
"OA" "JD" "QB" "AS" "TG" "MK" "IM"

 > sapply( lapply(
                   strsplit(lets2, split=""), sort),
                       paste, collapse="")

  [1] "AI" "EP" "ET" "IT" "PS" "DO" "OR" "EJ" "DR" "DD" "LM" "FO" "JR"  
"AO" "DJ" "BQ" "AS" "GT" "KM" "IM"

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Nabble is NOT rhelp. So PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE:

> .... do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT