[R] Non-standard sorts on vectors

[Cheng Peng]

The following code shows that the unlisted data frame assigns an index to
each member. When one sorts the data frame based on ULST, he in fact uses
the (implicit) indices of ULST but not the actual values! Therefore, your
guess is correct.

> test.vec=data.frame(c("A","F","C"))
> ULST=unlist(test.vec)
> ULST
c..A....F....C..1 c..A....F....C..2 c..A....F....C..3 
                A                 F                 C 
Levels: A C F

> sort(as.vector(ULST),index.return=T)
$x
[1] "A" "C" "F"

$ix
[1] 1 3 2

# also the rank and he index are different
> rank(ULST)
c..A....F....C..1 c..A....F....C..2 c..A....F....C..3 
                1                 3                 2 





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