Since your data.frame only has one column, you need to set drop=FALSE
to prevent the dimensions from being dropped:
weights[order(-weights$attr_importance),,drop=FALSE]
# attr_importance
# our 0.125433292
# all 0.098185517
# address 0.090686474
# over 0.075182467
# make 0.049630556
# num3d 0.007122618