relevel characteristics

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This is simple enough not to strictly require one, but screenshots make it a nuisance to duplicate the object. So, I'll use a subset of the built-in dataset mtcars

suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(dplyr)) 

my_data <- mtcars[1:2]
head(my_data)
#>                    mpg cyl
#> Mazda RX4         21.0   6
#> Mazda RX4 Wag     21.0   6
#> Datsun 710        22.8   4
#> Hornet 4 Drive    21.4   6
#> Hornet Sportabout 18.7   8
#> Valiant           18.1   6
my_data <- my_data[2:1]
head(my_data)
#>                   cyl  mpg
#> Mazda RX4           6 21.0
#> Mazda RX4 Wag       6 21.0
#> Datsun 710          4 22.8
#> Hornet 4 Drive      6 21.4
#> Hornet Sportabout   8 18.7
#> Valiant             6 18.1

# more intuitive way (swaps back to original)

my_data %>% select(mpg,cyl) -> my_data

head(my_data)
#>                    mpg cyl
#> Mazda RX4         21.0   6
#> Mazda RX4 Wag     21.0   6
#> Datsun 710        22.8   4
#> Hornet 4 Drive    21.4   6
#> Hornet Sportabout 18.7   8
#> Valiant           18.1   6

Created on 2020-03-27 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)