Ranking with ties

[cereghetti]

Hi there, i have to rank high values in a column of a data frame like this:

example <- data.frame(
country=c("Arg","Uru","Arg","Uru","Arg","Uru","Arg","Uru"),
value=c(1,1,2,3,4,5,6,10))

If i would rank the values with

example$rank<- rank(-example$value)

I would have something like this:

print(example$rank)
[1] 7.5 7.5 6.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0

When actually i am looking something like this:

[1] 7 8 6 5 4 3 2 1

If they are tied, i dont mind wich one has a higher rank.

Thank you!

[Yarnabrina]

Check the ties.method argument of base::rank function.

@cereghetti

If they are tied, i dont mind wich one has a higher rank.

You can consider using ties.method = "random".

[cereghetti]

Thank you!

That totally did it, thank you!