New note by rfortunes

rfortunes
2018-03-24T09:00:03+00:00
rstats

Ooops, that was answering the question you actually asked. The one you meant to ask is answered by this part:
The sort order for character vectors will depend on the collating sequence of the locale in use: see Comparison.
-- Peter Dalgaard (demonstrating his mind-reading skills when answering questions about sorting characters)
R-help (March 2016) #Rstats