[R] ideas on sorting

Berend Hasselman
2011-03-14T17:49:37Z

array chip wrote:
>
> Hi, I have a character vector as below:
>
>
a<-c('10','3R','4','4R','5','5R','6','6R','7','8','9','7R','1','10R','11'
>
,'11R','12','12R','13','13R','14','14R','15','15R','1R','2','2R','3','8R'
> ,'9R')
>
> Is there a clever way to sort this easily to return a vector of index that
> would
> produce a vector as below:
>
> a[index]:
>
>  [1] "1"   "2"   "3"   "4"
"5"   "6"   "7"   "8"   "9"
"10"
> [11] "11"  "12"  "13"  "14"
"15"  "1R"  "2R"  "3R"  "4R"
"5R"
> [21] "6R"  "7R"  "8R"  "9R"
"10R" "11R" "12R" "13R" "14R"
"15R"
>

Try

index <- order(as.numeric(sub('R','000',a)))

/Berend


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