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desc

Descending order

Description

Transform a vector into a format that will be sorted in descending order. This is useful within arrange().

Usage

desc(x)

Arguments

`x`	vector to transform

Examples

desc(1:10)
desc(factor(letters))

first_day <- seq(as.Date("1910/1/1"), as.Date("1920/1/1"), "years")
desc(first_day)

starwars %>% arrange(desc(mass))

dplyr

A Grammar of Data Manipulation

v1.0.6

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Hadley Wickham [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4757-117X>), Romain François [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2444-4226>), Lionel Henry [aut], Kirill Müller [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1416-3412>), RStudio [cph, fnd]

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