[R] sort order of a character sequence is different on windose and linux (linux result)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 06/07/2014, 6:30 AM, Witold E Wolski wrote:
> This is the result of sorting a character sequence on a linux box
> (with R . 3.10)

See ?sort.  The sort order depends on your locale.  Set it to "C" for
consistent ordering if that is important to you.  For example, on my system:

> "B" < "a"
[1] FALSE
> Sys.setlocale("LC_COLLATE", "C")
[1] "C"
> "B" < "a"
[1] TRUE

(but see the warning in the example in ?locales).

Duncan Murdoch

> 
>> bla = read.table("xx.txt",stringsAsFactors=F)
>> bla = bla[,1]
>> bla[1:10]
>  [1] "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"   "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"
> "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"   "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"
> "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"
>  [6] "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"   "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0"
> "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0" "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0"
> "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0"
>> sort(bla)[1:10]
>  [1] "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"   "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"
> "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"   "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"
> "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"
>  [6] "1000_DGFVALSK_2_run0"   "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0"
> "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0" "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0"
> "1001_DGGAWGTEQR_2_run0"
>>
> 
> I will send the result of sorting the content of xx.txt on windows
> from the windows box in a moment.
> 
> the file xx.txt can be found at:
> https://github.com/wolski/imsbInfer/blob/master/xx.txt
> 
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