order alphanumeric values from a list

mmixedOrder(
  ...,
  decreasing = FALSE,
  blanksFirst = TRUE,
  na.last = NAlast,
  keepNegative = FALSE,
  keepInfinite = FALSE,
  keepDecimal = FALSE,
  ignore.case = TRUE,
  useCaseTiebreak = TRUE,
  sortByName = FALSE,
  NAlast = TRUE,
  honorFactor = TRUE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  matrixAsDF = TRUE
)

Arguments

...

arguments treated as a list of vectors to be ordered in proper order, based upon the mechanism by base::order(), and as such data.frame is equivalent to a list.

blanksFirst, na.last, keepNegative, keepInfinite, keepDecimal, ignore.case, useCaseTiebreak, sortByName

arguments passed to mixedOrder(), except sortByName which is not passed along.

verbose

logical indicating whether to print verbose output, passed as verbose - 1 to mixedOrder().

matrixAsDF

logical if ... supplies only one matrix object, then matrixAsDF=TRUE will cause it to be converted to a data.frame, then coerce to a list before processing. By default, in the event only one matrix object is supplied, this conversion is performed, in order to define a sort order based upon each column in order, consistent with behavior of data.frame input.

Value

integer vector of row orders

Details

This function is a minor extension to mixedOrder(), "multiple mixedOrder()", which accepts list input, similar to how base::order() operates. This function is mainly useful when sorting something like a data.frame, where ties in column 1 should be maintained then broken by non-equal values in column 2, and so on.

This function essentially converts any non-numeric column to a factor, whose levels are sorted using mixedOrder(). That factor is converted to numeric value, multiplied by -1 when decreasing=TRUE. Finally the list of numeric vectors is passed to base::order().

In fact, mixedSortDF() calls this mmixedOrder() function, in order to sort a data.frame properly by column.

See mixedOrder() and mixedSort() for a better description of how the sort order logic operates.

Examples

# test factor level order
factor1 <- factor(c("Cnot9", "Cnot8", "Cnot10"))
sort(factor1)
#> [1] Cnot10 Cnot8  Cnot9 
#> Levels: Cnot10 Cnot8 Cnot9
mixedSort(factor1)
#> [1] Cnot8  Cnot9  Cnot10
#> Levels: Cnot10 Cnot8 Cnot9
factor1[mixedOrder(factor1)]
#> [1] Cnot8  Cnot9  Cnot10
#> Levels: Cnot10 Cnot8 Cnot9
factor1[mixedOrder(factor1, honorFactor=FALSE)]
#> [1] Cnot8  Cnot9  Cnot10
#> Levels: Cnot10 Cnot8 Cnot9
factor1[mixedOrder(factor1, honorFactor=TRUE)]
#> [1] Cnot10 Cnot8  Cnot9 
#> Levels: Cnot10 Cnot8 Cnot9

factor1[mmixedOrder(list(factor1))]
#> [1] Cnot10 Cnot8  Cnot9 
#> Levels: Cnot10 Cnot8 Cnot9
factor1[mmixedOrder(list(factor1), honorFactor=FALSE)]
#> [1] Cnot8  Cnot9  Cnot10
#> Levels: Cnot10 Cnot8 Cnot9
factor1[mmixedOrder(list(factor1), honorFactor=TRUE)]
#> [1] Cnot10 Cnot8  Cnot9 
#> Levels: Cnot10 Cnot8 Cnot9