[Rd] bug in rank(), order(), is.unsorted() on character vector

[Joris Meys]

2011/12/7 Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>:
> 2011/12/7 Joris Meys <jorismeys at gmail.com>:
>> @Barry : regardless of whether '_' comes before or after '1' , it
>> should be consistent. Adding an 'a' shouldn't shift '_' from before
>> '1' to between '1' and '2', that's clearly an error. The help files
>> are not stating anything about that.
>
>  That's an assumption. The help pages are quite clear about making assumptions.
>
I used the word 'error' too quickly. Translate 'error' into
'unexpected behaviour'. I also see now that assuming all characters
are actually used is an assumption one shouldn't make. But that's not
what I understood from the help text and the examples therein. Thanks
for the clarification.

I sincerely hope though that I can assume the sort order, using the
same locale, is always going to be the same. Otherwise order(x)
starts to look scaringly close to sample(seq_len(x))...

Cheers
Joris



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