[R] R function for percentrank

[John Kane]

Ah so ! Thank you .
--- Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Its a bit tricky if you want to get it to work
> exactly the same as
> Excel even in the presence of runs but in terms of
> the R approx function
> I think percentrank corresponds to ties = "min" if
> the value is among those
> in the table and ties = "ordered" otherwise so:
> 
> percentrank <- function(table, x = table) {
>    table <- sort(table)
>    ties <- ifelse(match(x, table, nomatch = 0),
> "min", "ordered")
>    len <- length(table)
>    f <- function(x, ties)
>       (approx(table, seq(0, len = len), x, ties =
> ties)$y) / (len - 1)
>    mapply(f, x, ties)
> }
> 
> # test
> tab <- c(1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3)
> percentrank(tab, 2:6/2) # c(0, .3, .4, .7, .8)
> 
> which is the same result as Excel 2007 gives.
> 
> On Dec 1, 2007 6:37 AM, tom soyer
> <tom.soyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know if R has a built-in function that
> is equvalent to Excel's
> > percentrank, i.e., returns the rank of a value in
> a data set as a percentage
> > of the data set?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Tom
> >
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