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Crash after adding sort to encoding (cannot destructure property 'aggregate' of 'n' as it is undefined)

See original GitHub issue

Adding the sort: "-x" causes the chart to crash, removing it fixes it.

Notably, using sort: {field} seems to work.

{
  "$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v5.json",
  "width": "container",
  "data": {
    "values": [
      {
        "label": "Food",
        "amount": 1200,
        "percent": 0.2901353965,
        "color": "red"
      },
      {
        "label": "Drink",
        "amount": 230,
        "percent": 0.05560928433,
        "color": "green"
      },
      {
        "label": "Accomodation",
        "amount": 1500,
        "percent": 0.3626692456,
        "color": "blue"
      },
      {
        "label": "Flight",
        "amount": 240,
        "percent": 0.0580270793,
        "color": "red"
      },
      {
        "label": "Entertainment",
        "amount": 542,
        "percent": 0.1310444874,
        "color": "green"
      },
      {
        "label": "Trips",
        "amount": 334,
        "percent": 0.08075435203,
        "color": "blue"
      },
      {"label": "Misc", "amount": 90, "percent": 0.02176015474, "color": "teal"}
    ]
  },
  "title": "By category",
  "encoding": {
    "y": {
      "field": "label",

  "sort": "-x",
      "title": null,
      "axis": null
    }
  },
  "layer": [
    {
      "mark": {"type": "bar", "tooltip": true, "cursor": "pointer"},
      "encoding": {
        "x": {
          "field": "amount",
          "type": "quantitative",
          "title": null,
          "axis": {"domain": false, "grid": false}
        },
        "color": {"field": "label", "legend": null},
        "opacity": {
          "condition": {"param": "selected", "value": 1},
          "value": 0.3
        }
      },
      "params": [
        {
          "name": "selected2",
          "select": {"type": "point", "encodings": ["y"], "toggle": false}
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "mark": {
        "type": "text",
        "align": "right",
        "x": -5,
        "cursor": "pointer",
        "tooltip": true
      },
      "encoding": {
        "text": {"field": "label"},
        "opacity": {
          "condition": {"param": "selected", "value": 1},
          "value": 0.3
        }
      },
      "params": [
        {
          "name": "selected",
          "select": {"type": "point", "encodings": ["y"], "toggle": false}
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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