What's the best way to inverse sort in scala?

Question

What is the best way to do an inverse sort in scala? I imagine the following is somewhat slow.

list.sortBy(_.size).reverse

Is there a conv

Answer 1

Another possibility in cases where you pass a function that you may not be able to modify directly to an Arraybuffer via sortWith for example:

val buf = collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer[Int]()
buf += 3
buf += 9
buf += 1

// the sort function (may be passed through from elsewhere)
def sortFn = (A:Int, B:Int) => { A < B }

// the two ways to sort below
buf.sortWith(sortFn)                        // 1, 3, 9
buf.sortWith((A,B) => { ! sortFn(A,B) })    // 9, 3, 1

Answer 2

list.sortBy(_.size)(Ordering[Int].reverse)

Answer 3

Easy peasy (at least in case of size):

scala> val list = List("abc","a","abcde")
list: List[java.lang.String] = List(abc, a, abcde)

scala> list.sortBy(-_.size)
res0: List[java.lang.String] = List(abcde, abc, a)

scala> list.sortBy(_.size)
res1: List[java.lang.String] = List(a, abc, abcde)

Answer 4

val list = List(2, 5, 3, 1)
list.sortWith(_>_) -> res14: List[Int] = List(5, 3, 2, 1)
list.sortWith(_<_) -> res14: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 5)

Answer 5

sortBy has implicit parameter ord which provides ordering

def sortBy [B] (f: (A) ⇒ B)(implicit ord: Ordering[B]): List[A]

so, we can define own Ordering object

scala> implicit object Comp extends Ordering[Int] {
 | override def compare (x: Int, y: Int): Int = y - x
 | }
defined module Comp

List(3,2,5,1,6).sortBy(x => x)
res5: List[Int] = List(6, 5, 3, 2, 1)

Answer 6

this is my code ;)

val wordCounts = logData.flatMap(line => line.split(" "))
                        .map(word => (word, 1))
                        .reduceByKey((a, b) => a + b)

wordCounts.sortBy(- _._2).collect()