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[peter dalgaard]

Collating orders are a weird and wooly bunch...  

My hunch is that you have one of those that ignore punctuation and sorts AaBbCc<etc>, so that you are seeing Modis{d-F-F-h-P}. ?Comparison for details.

-pd

> On 13 Oct 2016, at 10:29 , Bob O'Hara <rni.boh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've just come across an odd problem with sorting in ls(): it doesn't
> seem to order the object names correctly. If I do the following, the
> order isn't what I expect:
> 
>> ls(sorted=TRUE)
> [1] "AridData"          "AridDataToBUGS"    "Arid.df"
> "Arid.hpd"          "AridPrecip.sd"     "Break.df"
> [7] "Break.hpd"         "Cols"              "Data"
> "DataFrames"        "DataToBUGS"        "DataToBUGS.nonlog"
> [13] "FitBRugs"          "Fixed.df"          "Fixed.hpd"
> "FormatData"        "GetCol"            "GetHPD"
> [19] "GetMCMC"           "GetRow"            "HPDIs"
> "Int.alpha12"       "Int.alpha21"       "ModisData"
> [25] "ModisDataToBUGS"   "Modis.df"          "ModisFixed.df"
> "ModisFixed.hpd"    "Modis.hpd"         "ModisPrecip.sd"
> [31] "ModisShrink.df"    "ModisShrink.hpd"   "ModisYears"
> "OrigData"          "OrigDataToBUGS"    "Orig.df"
> [37] "Orig.hpd"          "OrigPrecip.sd"     "OrigYears"
> "PlotChecks"        "PlotEff"           "plothpd"
> [43] "ProvinceNames"     "ResNames"          "ResNamesOrder"
> "Shrink.df"         "Shrink.hpd"        "SimInits"
> 
> Specifically, the Modis* objects are sorted like this:
> 
>> ls(sorted=TRUE)[26:30]
> [1] "Modis.df"       "ModisFixed.df"  "ModisFixed.hpd" "Modis.hpd"
> "ModisPrecip.sd"
> 
> With Modis.* coming both before and after ModisF*. I can't see why
> there would be any odd problems with character sets changing (this was
> all done on a single computer with no weird locale switching), and the
> objects are all created within a single R session:
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.2.5 (2016-04-14)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
> 
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] MCMCglmm_2.22.1    ape_3.5            Matrix_1.2-7.1
> RColorBrewer_1.1-2 plyr_1.8.4         coda_0.18-1
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cubature_1.1-2  corpcor_1.6.8   tools_3.2.5     Rcpp_0.12.7
> nlme_3.1-128    grid_3.2.5      knitr_1.14
> [8] tensorA_0.36    lattice_0.20-34
> 
> Can anyone explain what's going on?
> 
> Bob
> 
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