[R] sort charcters in W2K and NT
Ivar Herfindal
Ivar.Herfindal at bio.ntnu.no
Fri Oct 17 10:54:17 CEST 2003
Hello.
I have a problem using sort() in windows 2000 and windows NT 4.0, running R
1.8.0 on both. I want to sort a vector of characters names, where I have
used "Scandinavian" letters, like 'Æ', 'Ø', and 'Å' (for those who cannot
display these letters this question seems rather meaningless, i guess).
Windows 2000 sorts the vector like I am used to from other software, with
'Å' as the last letter in the alphabet, while windows NT has "Å" just after
"A", and "Ø" following "O".
Is there a way to solve this problem (other than replace the Scandinavian
letters)?
A short example:
sort(c('a','p','å'))
# on windows 2000:
[1] "a" "p" "å"
# on windows NT
[1] "a" "å" "p"
Thanks in advance
Ivar Herfindal
On windows 2000:
> version
_ platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32
status major 1 minor 8.0
year 2003 month 10 day 08
language R
>
On windows NT:
> version
_ platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32
status major 1 minor 8.0
year 2003 month 10 day 08
language R
>
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