[R] sorting ascending descending! & THX@coling

[Thomas Vogels]

Witold Eryk Wolski <wolski at molgen.mpg.de> writes:

> THX.
> You are right!!
> 
> 
>  a[order(-1*a)]
> [1] 110  23   4   3   2
> 
> 
> Eryk

hmm, I would have thought rev(order(...)) to be more intuitive:

x[order(x)] sorts in ascending order,
x[rev(order(x))] sorts in descending order...

Enjoy,
  -tom

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