From rossini@stat.sc.edu  Fri Sep  5 16:06:59 1997
From: rossini@stat.sc.edu (Anthony Rossini)
Date: 05 Sep 1997 11:06:59 -0400
Subject: R-alpha: Sorting Efficiency -- thoughts.. : if(!is.sorted(x)) x <- sort(x)
In-Reply-To: Peter Dalgaard BSA's message of "05 Sep 1997 17:02:10 +0200"
References: <199709050832.KAA04356@sophie.ethz.ch> <x2afhrvm6l.fsf@bush.kubism.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <wnchgbzer58.fsf@fhat.stat.sc.edu>



Well, since it seems that number of algorithms have been implemented,
how about keeping them and having a:

	sort( x, algorithm="....")

call?  (I'm only quasi-serious this morning).

best,

-- 
-tony (Anthony Rossini)	           Statistics Dept., U South Carolina
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R-alpha: Sorting Efficiency -- thoughts.. : if(!is.sorted(x)) x <- sort(x)
Anthony Rossini