# How to return k largest elements of a vector in descending order?

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** sort, maxima\
**Created:** [October 31, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-return-k-largest-elements-of-a-vector-in-descending-order/89559 "2022-10-31T12:31:41Z")\
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by @stevengj

> the DataStructures.jl package [already contains such a function](https://juliacollections.github.io/DataStructures.jl/latest/heaps/#Functions-using-heaps-1), implemented using heaps.
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> Just call `nlargest(n, array)` from DataStructures.jl

from [this](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-quasi-best-maxn-function/52813/6) discussion

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