IP-Address

Hi,

Is there any way to sort a tabel with a colum with IP-address?

table:

id rank color status ip
138 29746 yellow no 162.131.58.26
138 29746 red  yes  162.131.58.16
138 29746 blue yes  162.131.58.10
138 29746 red no  162.131.58.17
138 29746 yellow no 162.131.58.14
138 29746 red no  162.131.58.13
138 29746 yellow  no 162.132.58.15
139 29746 green no  162.252.20.69
140 29746 red yes  162.254.20.71
141 29746 yellow no  163.253.7.153
142 31804 green yes  163.253.20.114
144 32360 black yes  161.138.45.226
....


Unfortunately, order doesn't work as I want.

I found an half solusion from John:

mysort <- function(x){
  sort.helper <- function(x){
    prefix <- strsplit(x, "[0-9]")
    prefix <- sapply(prefix, "[", 1)
    prefix[is.na(prefix)] <- ""
    suffix <- strsplit(x, "[^0-9]")
    suffix <- as.numeric(sapply(suffix, "[", 2))
    suffix[is.na(suffix)] <- -Inf
    remainder <- sub("[^0-9]+", "", x)
    remainder <- sub("[0-9]+", "", remainder)
    if (all (remainder == "")) list(prefix, suffix)
    else c(list(prefix, suffix), Recall(remainder))
    }
  ord <- do.call("order", sort.helper(x))
  x[ord]
   } 


mysort (data$ip)  captured only the ip-adresse. How can I capture the whole table and sorted?(ID rank color status ip)



Thank you in advance.

eddie