[R] sort file names in numerical order

[Sebastian Gibb]

thanks a lot, it works.

you wrote:
> library(gtools)
> ?mixedorder
> 
> --- On Sat, 7/17/10, Sebastian Gibb <lists at sebastiangibb.de> wrote:
> > From: Sebastian Gibb <lists at sebastiangibb.de>
> > Subject: [R] sort file names in numerical order
> > To: r-help at r-project.org
> > Received: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 4:31 AM
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I get some file names by list.files().
> > These names are in alphabetical order.
> > I want to change it to logical numeric order.
> > 
> > Example:
> > > fileNames <- c("A10", "A1", "A2", "B1", "B2",
> > 
> > "B10")
> > 
> > > sort(fileNames)
> > 
> > [1] "A1"  "A10" "A2"  "B1"  "B10" "B2"
> > I want to have:
> > "A1"  "A2" "A10" "B1" "B2" "B10"
> > 
> > Is this possible?
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Sebastian
> > 
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