R devel - Apr 2007 - Sort output of apropos

A further improvement to apropos() would be to sort the output.
Currently, the output of apropos is in the order found on the search
list and this will rarely be useful to the user.

All that is needed is a sort(x) at the end of the function.

+ seth

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Seems sensible, but 2.5.0 is in feature freeze and it is possible that 
someone has relied on this.

I've added this (and a \value section to the help file) for R-devel.


On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Seth Falcon wrote:
> A further improvement to apropos() would be to sort the output.
> Currently, the output of apropos is in the order found on the search
> list and this will rarely be useful to the user.
>
> All that is needed is a sort(x) at the end of the function.
>
> + seth
>
>
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