Sorting error when grouping text values

[iMissile]

In the case when a text column contains text that can be converted to a number, grouping by this column pulls all such numerical values to the front.

df <- c(rep("Start", 4), rep("End", 3), "2", "1", "1a", "1 ") |>
  data.frame(col_a = _)

df |>
  reactable::reactable(groupBy = "col_a")

sessionInfo()
#> R version 4.4.2 (2024-10-31 ucrt)
#> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
#> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> 
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] LC_COLLATE=Russian_Russia.utf8  LC_CTYPE=Russian_Russia.utf8   
#> [3] LC_MONETARY=Russian_Russia.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C                   
#> [5] LC_TIME=Russian_Russia.utf8    
#> 
#> time zone: Europe/Moscow
#> tzcode source: internal
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] styler_1.10.3     digest_0.6.36     fastmap_1.2.0     xfun_0.45        
#>  [5] magrittr_2.0.3    glue_1.8.0        R.utils_2.12.3    knitr_1.47       
#>  [9] htmltools_0.5.8.1 rmarkdown_2.27    lifecycle_1.0.4   cli_3.6.3        
#> [13] R.methodsS3_1.8.2 vctrs_0.6.5       reprex_2.1.0      withr_3.0.0      
#> [17] compiler_4.4.2    R.oo_1.26.0       R.cache_0.16.0    purrr_1.0.2      
#> [21] rstudioapi_0.16.0 tools_4.4.2       evaluate_0.24.0   yaml_2.3.8       
#> [25] rlang_1.1.4       fs_1.6.4

[glin]

Thank you for reporting this - I saw it earlier but just never got a chance to look at it.