Wrong list. This is not the Ubuntu shell support mailing list. The fact that you are using R to get at the operating system command line doesn't make this an R question. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On April 8, 2016 2:18:40 PM PDT, Maria Ninova <begemot...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hello, I came across the following oddity when it comes to file order >using the system command: different system commands return files in a >different order: >This is a real filenames example: > > > system("ls gw1kb_tables/rpkm_47*", intern=T) >[1] "gw1kb_tables/rpkm_479_Input.tab" >[2] "gw1kb_tables/rpkm_479_IP.tab" > > > system("for file in gw1kb_tables/rpkm_4*; do echo $file;done" ) >gw1kb_tables/rpkm_479_IP.tab >gw1kb_tables/rpkm_479_Input.tab > >As you see, in the first case, the "Input" comes first, while in the >second, the IP comes first; I was surprised by this result and not sure > >if it's expected? >I am using R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) on Ubuntu 15.04 > >Thank you in advance, > >Maria > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.