total_list$field1.rank <-
rank(-total_list$field1,ties.method="min")
Marvellous what a negative sign can achieve!
You may want to put ties.method="max" though depending on what you
want...:)
On Monday 06 August 2007 14:13:35 Jiong Zhang, PhD
wrote:> Hi All,
>
> I want to give ranks to elements in a column so I used:
> total_list$field1.rank <-
rank(total_list$field1,ties.method="min")
>
> But this gives me the rank in increasing order. How do I get the ranks in
> decreasing order? I know decreasing = FALSE is not a legal argument here.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jiong
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