[R] sort a list?

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

 x[order(unlist(x), decreasing = TRUE)]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:28 PM,  <rkevinburton at charter.net> wrote:
> I am trying to sort a list and the data is obiously not in the right format. I am trying:
>
> x <- list()
> x[["A"]] <- 1
> x[["B"]] <- 2
>
> order(x)
>
> But am getting:
>
> Error in order(x) : unimplemented type 'list' in 'orderVector1'
>
> How should I change the list so that it can be sorted? What kinds of objects (classes of objects) can be sorted?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kevin
>
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