Sorts item names according to user-specified priority

This function sorts the item names according to instrument, domain, mode and number. The user can specify the sorting order.

sort_itemnames(x, order = "idnm")

order_itemnames(x, order = "idnm")

Arguments

x	A character vector containing item names (gsed lexicon)
order	A four-letter string specifying the sorting order. The four letters are: i for instrument, d for domain, m for mode and n for number. The default is "idnm".

Value

sort_itemnames() return a character vector with length(x) sorted elements. order_itemnames() return an integer vector of length length(x) with positions of the sorted elements.

See also

decompose_itemnames()

Author

Stef van Buuren

Examples

itemnames <- c("aqigmc028", "grihsd219", "", "by1mdd157", "mdsgmd006")
decompose_itemnames(itemnames)
#>   instrument domain mode number
#> 1        aqi     gm    c    028
#> 2        gri     hs    d    219
#> 3                              
#> 4        by1     md    d    157
#> 5        mds     gm    d    006