Creating lists within lists by sorting

Question

I've been working with lists and am stuck on creating lists within a list based on the first element within that list. So for instance, if I have the list:

> list={{John,42},{Mary,52},{John,30},{Mary,25},{Joe,10}}

I would like to return this:

{{{Joe,10}},{{John,42},{John,30}},{{Mary,52},{Mary,25}}}

As you can see, this is basically a reorganized list within a list based on SortBy[...,First]

I can create the sorted version by simply doing:

SortBy[list,First]

Which would return:

{{Joe,10},{John,42},{John,30},{Mary,52},{Mary,25}}

But I would also like for each list to be grouped into another list based on the name

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

GatherBy[SortBy[list, First], First]
GatherBy[Sort@list, First]
SplitBy[Sort@list, First]
Values @ GroupBy[First] @ Sort@list

{{{Joe, 10}}, {{John, 30}, {John, 42}}, {{Mary, 25}, {Mary, 52}}}

SortBy[GatherBy[list, First], First]
GatherBy[SortBy[list, {First}], First]
Sort[GatherBy[list, First]] (* thanks: J.M *)
Values @ Sort @ GroupBy[First] @ list

{{{Joe, 10}}, {{John, 42}, {John, 30}}, {{Mary, 52}, {Mary, 25}}}

Answer 2

Do you mean something like obtained from

KeySort[Map[SortBy[#, Last] &, GroupBy[list, First]]]

(* <|Joe -> {{Joe, 10}}, John -> {{John, 30}, {John, 42}}, Mary -> {{Mary, 25}, {Mary, 52}}|> *)

or by

Values[KeySort[Map[SortBy[#, Last] &, GroupBy[list, First]]]]

(* {{{Joe, 10}}, {{John, 30}, {John, 42}}, {{Mary, 25}, {Mary, 52}}} *)

?