[R] rank in decreasing order

[John Logsdon]

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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John

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