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Sort vector by length or file types of its content

Source: R/sort.R
sort-additives.Rd

Sort the length or file types of the content of a vector

Takes a vector of file names and sorts them by their file extensions (file type)

Usage

sort_length(vec, asc = TRUE)

sort_file_type(files, asc = TRUE)

Arguments

vec

a vector

asc

A logical value indicating whether to sort in ascending (TRUE) or descending (FALSE) order. Default is TRUE.

files

A character vector containing file names to be sorted

Value

vector of items sorted by length

A character vector of sorted file names

Note

This function removes all NAs prior to sorting the vector

Examples

# sort by length of content
x = c("acs","tt","jdssr","h","grab")
sort_length(vec = x) # ascending order of length
#> [1] "h"     "tt"    "acs"   "grab"  "jdssr"
sort_length(vec = x, asc = FALSE) # descending order of length
#> [1] "jdssr" "grab"  "acs"   "tt"    "h"    


files <- c("doc1.pdf",
  "image.jpg", "house.csv", "notes.txt",
  "patab","doc2.pdf", "data.csv", "pic.png","cotab")
sort_file_type(files)
#> [1] "patab"     "cotab"     "house.csv" "data.csv"  "image.jpg" "doc1.pdf" 
#> [7] "doc2.pdf"  "pic.png"   "notes.txt"
sort_file_type(files, asc = FALSE)
#> [1] "notes.txt" "pic.png"   "doc1.pdf"  "doc2.pdf"  "image.jpg" "house.csv"
#> [7] "data.csv"  "patab"     "cotab"