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...ng and - indicates descending. This ordering of the arguments seems natural to me, but in order to be consistent with other functions that have formulae it would probably be better to use sort.data.frame(formula, data). I spent an hour or so working on this and then admitted that manipulating R formlas is not one of my stronger skills. (I would have use a loop, and then use substitute and eval(parse(text=...)) and would be embarassed for anyone to see it.) My personal feeling is that this function would be quite helpful and reduce the frequency of sort questions on R-help. This might be a nic...