[R] Sorting strings

[Enrico Schumann]

See ?Comparison, which holds some warnings about what to expect when 
sorting strings.


Am 20.02.2012 11:51, schrieb Petr Savicky:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:18:42AM -0800, statquant2 wrote:
>> Hi all, I am having difficulties to understand how R sort strings:
>>
>> If I do
>> R) sort(c("X.","X0B"))
>> [1] "X."  "X0B"
>>
>> So for me, as far as lexicographic order is concerned I can add whatever to
>> the end, the order will remain the same, but :
>
> Hi.
>
> This neednot be true for strings of different length.
> For example
>
>    ab
>    abc
>
> become by concatenation with z
>
>    abcz
>    abz
>
> Petr Savicky.
>
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