sort: Sorting a vector-like object
In BiocGenerics: S4 generic functions used in Bioconductor

Description Usage Arguments Value Note See Also Examples

Sort a vector-like object into ascending or descending order.

NOTE: This man page is for the sort S4 generic function defined in the BiocGenerics package. See ?base::sort for the default method (defined in the base package). Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects not supported by the default method.

1	sort(x, decreasing=FALSE, ...)

`x`	A vector-like object.
`decreasing, ...`	See `?base::sort` for a description of these arguments.

See ?base::sort for the value returned by the default method.

Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages should behave as consistently as possible with the default method.

TO DEVELOPERS:

See note in ?BiocGenerics::order about "stable" order.

order, sort, and rank methods for specific vector-like objects should adhere to the same underlying order that should be conceptually defined as a binary relation on the set of all possible vector values. For completeness, this binary relation should also be incarnated by a <= method.

base::sort for the default sort method.
showMethods for displaying a summary of the methods defined for a given generic function.
selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.
sort,Vector-method in the S4Vectors package for an example of a specific sort method (defined for Vector objects).
BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.

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sort  # note the dispatch on the 'x' arg only
showMethods("sort")
selectMethod("sort", "ANY")  # the default method

Loading required package: parallel

Attaching package: 'BiocGenerics'

The following objects are masked from 'package:parallel':

    clusterApply, clusterApplyLB, clusterCall, clusterEvalQ,
    clusterExport, clusterMap, parApply, parCapply, parLapply,
    parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    Filter, Find, Map, Position, Reduce, anyDuplicated, append,
    as.data.frame, basename, cbind, colMeans, colSums, colnames,
    dirname, do.call, duplicated, eval, evalq, get, grep, grepl,
    intersect, is.unsorted, lapply, lengths, mapply, match, mget,
    order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int, rank, rbind,
    rowMeans, rowSums, rownames, sapply, setdiff, sort, table, tapply,
    union, unique, unsplit, which, which.max, which.min

standardGeneric for "sort" defined from package "BiocGenerics"

function (x, decreasing = FALSE, ...) 
standardGeneric("sort")
<environment: 0x2828200>
Methods may be defined for arguments: x
Use  showMethods("sort")  for currently available ones.
Function: sort (package BiocGenerics)
x="ANY"

Method Definition (Class "derivedDefaultMethod"):

function (x, decreasing = FALSE, ...) 
{
    if (!is.logical(decreasing) || length(decreasing) != 1L) 
        stop("'decreasing' must be a length-1 logical vector.\nDid you intend to set 'partial'?")
    UseMethod("sort")
}
<bytecode: 0x2831638>
<environment: namespace:base>

Signatures:
        x    
target  "ANY"
defined "ANY"