How to sort data by column in descending order in R

Question

I\'ve looked and looked and the answer either does not work for me, or it\'s far too complex and unnecessary.

I have data, it can be any data, here is an example

Answer 1

You need to use dataframe name as prefix

chickens[order(chickens$feathers),]  

To change the order, the function has decreasing argument

chickens[order(chickens$feathers, decreasing = TRUE),]