Transform a vector into a format that will be sorted in descending order.

desc(x)

Arguments

x

vector to transform

Examples

desc(1:10)
#>  [1]  -1  -2  -3  -4  -5  -6  -7  -8  -9 -10
desc(factor(letters))
#>  [1]  -1  -2  -3  -4  -5  -6  -7  -8  -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15 -16 -17 -18 -19
#> [20] -20 -21 -22 -23 -24 -25 -26
first_day <- seq(as.Date("1910/1/1"), as.Date("1920/1/1"), "years")
desc(first_day)
#>  [1] 21915 21550 21185 20819 20454 20089 19724 19358 18993 18628 18263