[R] getting rank order

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Jay Pfaffman <pfaffman at relaxpc.com> writes:

> I'm doing a study where people place a deck of cards in a certain
> order.  It's sufficient to assume that their colors & each has a
> number (it's actually about attributes of hobbies).  I'd like to look
> for patterns in how they've arranged the deck.  For each subject I
> have a list like 3,5,2,4,1, indicating that (s)he chose 3 first, then
> 5, then 2. . . .
> 
> I think what I first need to do is to make a variable for each card
> with the rank given to each card, so the above list should be
> transformed to something like
> 
> card1 card2 card3 card4 card5
>   5     3     1     4     2
> 
> I've RTFMed on sort and rank.  I can't find an elegant solution in
> either a spreadsheet or R.  I'm about to give up and do it by hand.

Is this what you are looking for?

> order(c(3,5,2,4,1))
[1] 5 3 1 4 2

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