[R] Reorder in decreasing order

Weidong Gu anopheles123 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 22 20:48:38 CEST 2012


Sverre,

have you tried to put minus(-) in front of the variable by which you
order the other?

weidong

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Sverre Stausland
<johnsen at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> reorder() is probably the best way to order the levels in a vector
> without manually specifying the order. But reorder() orders by default
> in an increasing order: "The levels are ordered such that the values
> returned by ‘FUN’ are in increasing order."
>
> Is there a way to do what reorder() does, but order the levels
> according to a _decreasing_ order of the values?
>
> Sverre
>
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