[R] sorting character vectors

[Peter Dalgaard]

andreas.krause at pharma.novartis.com writes:

> Thank you very much to Brian Ripley, Roger Peng, and Andy Liaw. Everyone 
> pointed out the same solution.
> Setting
> LC_COLLATE=C
> did it. This default setting is indeed odd to me.

It's odd to everyone, except perhaps to the POSIX locale mafia... Once
upon a time all dotfile sorted to the top of but nowadays "LANG=da_DK
ls -a | less" gives you

...
a2ps
a2ps-4.13-3.i386.rpm
abcd.txt
.AbiSuite
.ab_library
abline.ps
.acrobat
.acrorc
.acrosrch
active.rtf
...

Oddly enough da_DK does sort names with a leading space before
characters, whereas de_DE does not.


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