R help - Mar 2007 - replicating SAS's "proc rank" procedure

Hello-

I wonder if there's a way to replicate SAS rank procedure where it ranks a
variable by a certain number of groups. For example, it's very easy to
calculate quintile rank in SAS, but I couldn't find the similar function in
R. 

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks. 

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Jiho.han,
> I wonder if there's a way to replicate SAS rank procedure where it
ranks a
> variable by a certain number of groups. For example, it's very easy to
> calculate quintile rank in SAS, but I couldn't find the similar
function in
> R. 
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this?
There are some functions you can try: rank(), order() or sort().
Actually, I didn't understand well your problem.
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
It can be a simple SAS code just to let us help you more.

Rogerio