How to reorder facets in tmap r?

There seems to be some kind of an issue with layer names and tmap (v3) facets when changing SpatRaster layer order though subsetting. Here's a partial answer that might provide a workaround by first sorting by encoded dates so layers in the resulting SpatRaster would be ordered chronologically, presumably fixing facet order:

library(tidyverse)

file_list <- c("RF_04.Apr.2022_LL", "RF_13.Dec.2021_LL", "RF_15.Feb.2022_LL", "RF_17.Dec.2020_LL", "RF_18.Nov.2021_LL", "RF_19.Feb.2021_LL")

# extract dates, use file_list vector for names
date_list <- 
  file_list |> 
  stringr::str_extract("(?<=_).*(?=_)") |> 
  lubridate::dmy() |>
  setNames(file_list)
date_list
#> RF_04.Apr.2022_LL RF_13.Dec.2021_LL RF_15.Feb.2022_LL RF_17.Dec.2020_LL 
#>      "2022-04-04"      "2021-12-13"      "2022-02-15"      "2020-12-17" 
#> RF_18.Nov.2021_LL RF_19.Feb.2021_LL 
#>      "2021-11-18"      "2021-02-19"

# sort by dates, extract names
(file_list_sorted <- sort(date_list) |> names())
#> [1] "RF_17.Dec.2020_LL" "RF_19.Feb.2021_LL" "RF_18.Nov.2021_LL"
#> [4] "RF_13.Dec.2021_LL" "RF_15.Feb.2022_LL" "RF_04.Apr.2022_LL"

# import rasters
x = rast(file_list_sorted)

# alter names to only keep date values, part between _ & _
names(x) <- names(x) |> stringr::str_extract("(?<=_).*(?=_)")
names(x)
#> [1] "17.Dec.2020" "19.Feb.2021" "18.Nov.2021" "13.Dec.2021" "15.Feb.2022" "04.Apr.2022"


# continue with tmap