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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