R help - Sep 2010 - Percentile rank for each element in list

Heeeelp

Given this data
 x <- c(1,5,100,300,250,200,550,900,1000)
> quantile(x)
  0%  25%  50%  75% 100%
   1  100  250  550 1000

When I run the quantile, I can only know the value of the nth
percentile

I want to know what's the percentile position of each items in the
list
Sample
1 = 100% on the list has 1 or more
5 = more than x% on the list has 5 or more
100  = more than x% on the list has 100 or more
250 = more than 50% on the list has 250 or more
etc....

Thanks in advance

Hi,
I think you want ecdf(), but read the help page because it works a
little different than you might expect.

ecdf.x <- ecdf(x)
ecdf.x(x)

Best,
Ista

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:37 AM, mic <mikezian11 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Heeeelp
>
> Given this data
> ?x <- c(1,5,100,300,250,200,550,900,1000)
>> quantile(x)
> ?0% ?25% ?50% ?75% 100%
> ? 1 ?100 ?250 ?550 1000
>
> When I run the quantile, I can only know the value of the nth
> percentile
>
> I want to know what's the percentile position of each items in the
> list
> Sample
> 1 = 100% on the list has 1 or more
> 5 = more than x% on the list has 5 or more
> 100 ?= more than x% on the list has 100 or more
> 250 = more than 50% on the list has 250 or more
> etc....
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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-- 
Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
http://yourpsyche.org

Is this what you want to have:
> x <- c(1,5,100,300,250,200,550,900,1000) 
> # assume you want the position of 25th percentile
> which(x==quantile(x,0.25))
[1] 3

Note that "position" is meaningful only when the percentile is one of
the
observed data values. If you want to know the "position" of 70th
percentile
(that is between "position" 6 and "position" 7). You need to
do something
coding to get these two adjacent "positions".
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