[Rd] "Human-style" sort() of alphanum strings?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Thanks, and sorry - I missed those two "missing letter "ed" and though
you only refer to that URL for extra example code.  mixsort() does it
for me.

/H

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Follow up/bug:
>
> mixedsort() gets confused when there are periods in the string(s);
>
>>   print(gtools::mixedsort("a"))
> [1] "a"
>>   print(gtools::mixedsort("a."))
> [1] "a." NA
>>   print(gtools::mixedsort("a.b"))
> [1] "a.b" NA    NA
>>   print(gtools::mixedsort("a.b."))
> [1] "a.b." NA     NA     NA
>>   print(gtools::mixedsort("a.b.c"))
> [1] "a.b.c" NA      NA      NA      NA
>>   print(gtools::mixedsort("a.b.c."))
> [1] "a.b.c." NA       NA       NA       NA       NA
>
> Is the '.' trigger an incorrect interpretation of a number?
>
> /Henrik
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> See mixedsort in gtools.  Also on http://gsubfn.googlecode.com see
>> mixsort example in the section starting ### more examples
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>> I know it is fairly easy to implement (though not always well
>>> defined), but is there an existing sort function out there that takes
>>> alphanum strings and sort them in a "human" fashion?  For example,
>>> instead of:
>>>
>>> z1.doc z10.doc z100.doc z101.doc z11.doc z2.doc
>>>
>>> it should out put:
>>>
>>> z1.doc z2.doc z10.doc z11.doc z100.doc z101.doc
>>>
>>> (from http://www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html).
>>>
>>> /Henrik
>>>
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