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base (version 3.3)

is.unsorted: Test if an Object is Not Sorted

Description

Test if an object is not sorted (in increasing order), without the cost of sorting it.

Usage

is.unsorted(x, na.rm = FALSE, strictly = FALSE)

Arguments

x
an R object with a class or a numeric, complex, character, logical or raw vector.
na.rm
logical. Should missing values be removed before checking?
strictly
logical indicating if the check should be for strictly increasing values.

Value

A length-one logical value. All objects of length 0 or 1 are sorted. Otherwise, the result will be NA except for atomic vectors and objects with an S3 class (where the >= or > method is used to compare x[i] with x[i-1] for i in 2:length(x)) or with an S4 class where you have to provide a method for is.unsorted(). %% FIXME: rather want '>' and '>=' methods for S4 classes be sufficient

See Also

sort, order.