Sort a named list in R

Question

I have a named list of term frequencies,

> list
$`in the`
[1] 67504

$`to the`
[1] 36666

$`of the`
[1] 79665

$`on the`
[1] 31261

$`to be`
[1] 25862

$`         


        

Answer 1

If the list is large and involves large objects, would it be better to just use names?

 lst = lst[order(names(lst))]