[R-SIG-Mac] sort() under terminal

[Rainer M Krug]

Adrian Dușa <dusa.adrian at unibuc.ro> writes:

> Dear All,
>
> I tried to search some information about this on Google, but didn't find
> anything yet.
> There seems to be a difference between sorting in the Terminal app and
> sorting in the Rgui:
>
> In the Terminal:

Just a guess: Check the sessionInfo(). Mine is:

,----
| > sessionInfo()
| R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
| Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0 (64-bit)
| Running under: OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
| 
| locale:
| [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
| 
| attached base packages:
| [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
| >
`----

I guess it is the locale settings which are different?

Cheers,

Rainer
>
>> sort(c("W", "e", "E"))
> [1] "E" "W" "e"
>> R.version
>                _
> platform       x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
> arch           x86_64
> os             darwin13.4.0
> system         x86_64, darwin13.4.0
> status
> major          3
> minor          2.2
> year           2015
> month          08
> day            14
> svn rev        69053
> language       R
> version.string R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
> nickname       Fire Safety
>
>
>
> In the Rgui:
>
>> sort(c("W", "e", "E"))
> [1] "e" "E" "W"
>> R.version
>                _
> platform       x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
> arch           x86_64
> os             darwin13.4.0
> system         x86_64, darwin13.4.0
> status
> major          3
> minor          2.2
> year           2015
> month          08
> day            14
> svn rev        69053
> language       R
> version.string R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
> nickname       Fire Safety
>
>
> Could anyone point me to some information, please?
> Best wishes,
> Adrian

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