hmm, that is what I was afraid of. I considered that but thought to myself, surely there must be an easier way. I wonder why this feature isn't available. It's there in scripting languages, like perl, but also in "hardcore" languages like C++ where std::sort and sorted containers allow the user to provide a comparison function (even for builtin types like int). It's hard to believe that you have to jump through more hoops to do a custom sort in R than in C++ ...
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