list.files() reorders files in R CMD INSALL
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:
[1] "a" "A" "b" "B" which differs in order from that in R CMD INSTALL.
Looks like the sorting is being done in the C locale in the first case, and in a different one in the second. See ?locales for how to set the locale to what you want.
... when in R, and see the R Extensions manual for setting it during the INSTALL.
However, notice that the C locale is generally enforced for a reason: Sometimes the order of files matter, e.g. the file zzz.R is designed to come last, but in en_GB it actually comes before Zeke.R and in Estonian z comes between s and t...
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