[Rd] alpha-numeric order bug (PR#3996)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

kschlauc at vt.edu writes:

> I am running R version 1.7.1 on 3 different operating systems:
> Linux RedHat, Linux Slackware, and Windows 2000.

> > " 2" < "10"
> [1] FALSE
> > "23"<"-3"
> [1] TRUE
> 
> 
> Is this a RedHat problem or an R problem?

not R I think, but which RedHat?? I get

>  "23"<"-3"
[1] FALSE
>  " 2" < "10"
[1] TRUE

on RH8.0 with

$ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE=da_DK
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=


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