sort.data.table method

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
data

Research direction

Start at the setorderv entry point named in the issue and locate existing ordering methods and their tests in the data.table package. Verify how sort should handle a data.table and its column names, then add coverage showing that the result is ordered as proposed and run the relevant test suite.

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Description

There could be sort method for data.table which basically could be

\x setorderv(copy(x), names(x))[]
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