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Message-ID: <01011219550500.00804@ligarto>
Date: 2001-01-12T18:54:08Z
From: Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Subject: sorting ascending descending?
In-Reply-To: <3A5F430A.D7B14AE6@molgen.mpg.de>

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Witold Eryk Wolski wrote:
> HI!
> By xx[order(xx)] I can sort the array ascendin. How to sort them
> descending.
> 
> eg.:
> > a<-c(2,3,110,23,4)
> > a[order(a)]
> [1]   2   3   4  23 110
> 
> but i wont.
> [1] 110  23   4   3   2
> 


You can do:

a[order(-a)]


Ramón


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