[Rd] natural sorting

Warnes, Gregory R gregory.r.warnes at pfizer.com
Tue Jan 17 20:48:46 CET 2006


The 'mixedsort' function in the 'gtools' package does this.  It is probably slower than the c version you point to, but it is already working in R.

-G

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> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:45:10PM -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > It would be nifty to incorporate this into R or into an R package:
> > 
> > http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort/
> 
> Btw, I haven't looked at the implementation, but Tcl also contains
> equivalent functionality, they call it dictionary sort:
> 
>   http://tcl.activestate.com/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/lsort.htm
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