From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Aug 27 18:22:42 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed Aug 27 18:26:49 2003
Subject: [Rd] alpha-numeric order bug (PR#3996)
In-Reply-To: <200308271603.h7RG3JJH000163@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308271713580.19980-100000@gannet.stats>

Oh, please don't report your misunderstandings as bugs.  Do at least read 
the help page first!

Incidentally, the version of `SPlus' (sic) matters critically here.  On my
RedHat system " 2" < "10" is TRUE, but then I am not in your locale.

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 kschlauc@vt.edu wrote:

> I am running R version 1.7.1 on 3 different operating systems:
> Linux RedHat, Linux Slackware, and Windows 2000.
> 
> R is ordering alpha-numeric character strings in different ways, dependent
> on the operating system. 

[...]

And what does it say in ?Comparison it does?

> Is this a RedHat problem or an R problem?

Another possibility you have overlooked is a Karen Schlauch problem

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[Rd] alpha-numeric order bug (PR#3996)
Prof Brian Ripley