stringi (version 1.7.5)

stri_sort: Sorting

Description

This function sorts a character vector according to a locale-dependent lexicographic order.

Usage

stri_sort(str, decreasing = FALSE, na_last = NA, ..., opts_collator = NULL)

Arguments

str

a character vector

decreasing

a single logical value; should the sort order be nondecreasing (FALSE, default, i.e., weakly increasing) or nonincreasing (TRUE)?

na_last

a single logical value; controls the treatment of NAs in str. If TRUE, then missing values in str are put at the end; if FALSE, they are put at the beginning; if NA, then they are removed from the output

...

additional settings for opts_collator

opts_collator

a named list with ICU Collator's options, see stri_opts_collator, NULL for default collation options

Value

The result is a sorted version of str, i.e., a character vector.

Details

For more information on ICU's Collator and how to tune it up in stringi, refer to stri_opts_collator.

As usual in stringi, non-character inputs are coerced to strings, see an example below for a somewhat non-intuitive behavior of lexicographic sorting on numeric inputs.

This function uses a stable sort algorithm (STL's stable_sort), which performs up to $N\ast lo{g}^2(N)$ element comparisons, where $N$ is the length of str.

References

Collation - ICU User Guide, https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/collation/

See Also

The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/

Other locale_sensitive: %s<%(), about_locale, about_search_boundaries, about_search_coll, stri_compare(), stri_count_boundaries(), stri_duplicated(), stri_enc_detect2(), stri_extract_all_boundaries(), stri_locate_all_boundaries(), stri_opts_collator(), stri_order(), stri_rank(), stri_sort_key(), stri_split_boundaries(), stri_trans_tolower(), stri_unique(), stri_wrap()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
stri_sort(c('hladny', 'chladny'), locale='pl_PL')
stri_sort(c('hladny', 'chladny'), locale='sk_SK')
stri_sort(sample(LETTERS))
stri_sort(c(1, 100, 2, 101, 11, 10))
stri_sort(c(1, 100, 2, 101, 11, 10), numeric=TRUE)
# }