stri_order: Ordering Permutation

Description

This function finds a permutation which rearranges the strings in a given character vector into the ascending or descending locale-dependent lexicographic order.

Usage

stri_order(str, decreasing = FALSE, na_last = TRUE, ..., opts_collator = NULL)

Arguments

str	a character vector
decreasing	a single logical value; should the sort order be nondecreasing (FALSE, default) 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

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 \(N*log^2(N)\) element comparisons, where \(N\) is the length of str.

For ordering with regards to multiple criteria (such as sorting data frames by more than 1 column), see stri_rank.

Value

The function yields an integer vector that gives the sort order.

Author(s)

Marek Gagolewski and other contributors

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/

Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i02

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_rank(), stri_sort(), stri_sort_key(), stri_split_boundaries(), stri_trans_tolower(), stri_unique(), stri_wrap()

Examples

stri_order(c('hladny', 'chladny'), locale='pl_PL')
## [1] 2 1
stri_order(c('hladny', 'chladny'), locale='sk_SK')
## [1] 1 2
stri_order(c(1, 100, 2, 101, 11, 10))  # lexicographic order
## [1] 1 6 2 4 5 3
stri_order(c(1, 100, 2, 101, 11, 10), numeric=TRUE)  # OK for integers
## [1] 1 3 6 5 2 4
stri_order(c(0.25, 0.5, 1, -1, -2, -3), numeric=TRUE)  # incorrect
## [1] 4 5 6 2 1 3