[R] ordering a data.frame by average rank of multiple columns

[Tom.O]

Hi 

I have run into a problem and i wonder if anyone has a smart way of doing
this.

For example i have this data frame for 5 different test groups:

Res1 <- c(1,5,4,-0.5,3)
Res2 <- c(-1,8,2,0,3)
Mean <- c(0.5,1,1.5,-.5,2)
MyFrame <- data.frame(Res1,Res2,Mean,row.names=c("G1","G2","G3","G4","G5"))

where the first two columns are the results of two different tests, the
third column is the mean of the group.

I want to order this data.frame by the combined rank of Res1 & Res2, but
where weigths are assigned to the importeance av each column. Lets assume
that Res1 is twice as important and lower values rank better.

MyRanks<-data.frame(Rank1=rank(MyFrame[,"Res1"]),Rank2=rank(MyFrame[,"Res2"]),CombR=2*rank(MyFrame[,"Res1"])+rank(MyFrame[,"Res2"]),row.names=c("G1","G2","G3","G4","G5"))

    Rank1 Rank2 CombR 
G1     2     1     5
G2     5     5    15
G3     4     3    11
G4     1     2     4
G5     3     4    10


and the rank of the combined is 2,5,4,1,3 , but to be able to sort MyFrame
in that order I need to enter this vector of positions c(4,1,5,3,2) but do
anyone have a smart way of converting ranks to positions?

Tom


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