Collating orders are a weird and wooly bunch...
My hunch is that you have one of those that ignore punctuation and sorts
AaBbCc<etc>, so that you are seeing Modis{d-F-F-h-P}. ?Comparison for details.
-pd
> On 13 Oct 2016, at 10:29 , Bob O'Hara <rni....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've just come across an odd problem with sorting in ls(): it doesn't
> seem to order the object names correctly. If I do the following, the
> order isn't what I expect:
>
>> ls(sorted=TRUE)
> [1] "AridData" "AridDataToBUGS" "Arid.df"
> "Arid.hpd" "AridPrecip.sd" "Break.df"
> [7] "Break.hpd" "Cols" "Data"
> "DataFrames" "DataToBUGS" "DataToBUGS.nonlog"
> [13] "FitBRugs" "Fixed.df" "Fixed.hpd"
> "FormatData" "GetCol" "GetHPD"
> [19] "GetMCMC" "GetRow" "HPDIs"
> "Int.alpha12" "Int.alpha21" "ModisData"
> [25] "ModisDataToBUGS" "Modis.df" "ModisFixed.df"
> "ModisFixed.hpd" "Modis.hpd" "ModisPrecip.sd"
> [31] "ModisShrink.df" "ModisShrink.hpd" "ModisYears"
> "OrigData" "OrigDataToBUGS" "Orig.df"
> [37] "Orig.hpd" "OrigPrecip.sd" "OrigYears"
> "PlotChecks" "PlotEff" "plothpd"
> [43] "ProvinceNames" "ResNames" "ResNamesOrder"
> "Shrink.df" "Shrink.hpd" "SimInits"
>
> Specifically, the Modis* objects are sorted like this:
>
>> ls(sorted=TRUE)[26:30]
> [1] "Modis.df" "ModisFixed.df" "ModisFixed.hpd" "Modis.hpd"
> "ModisPrecip.sd"
>
> With Modis.* coming both before and after ModisF*. I can't see why
> there would be any odd problems with character sets changing (this was
> all done on a single computer with no weird locale switching), and the
> objects are all created within a single R session:
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.2.5 (2016-04-14)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] MCMCglmm_2.22.1 ape_3.5 Matrix_1.2-7.1
> RColorBrewer_1.1-2 plyr_1.8.4 coda_0.18-1
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cubature_1.1-2 corpcor_1.6.8 tools_3.2.5 Rcpp_0.12.7
> nlme_3.1-128 grid_3.2.5 knitr_1.14
> [8] tensorA_0.36 lattice_0.20-34
>
> Can anyone explain what's going on?
>
> Bob
>
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