[R] Rank Values in a Matrix

[Doran, Harold]

If your matrix below is called aa, you could do this

> matrix(rank(aa, ties='min'), ncol=ncol(aa))
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,]    4    8    1   11
[2,]   14   11   11    5
[3,]   15    5    5    1
[4,]   15    8    8    1

This doesn't assign the values you list, but it does rank them. OTOH, if
you want as you have below, I think this works

rank(unique(stack(aa)[1]))-1

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jens Oldeland
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 7:47 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Rank Values in a Matrix
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> a short and maybe simple question:
> 
> 
> I have to rank all values in a matrix from 0 to X,
> 
>     [1]   [2] [3]  [4]
> [1] 0.1  2   0    3
> [2] 50   3   3    1
> [3] 100 1   1    0
> [4] 100  2  2    0
> 
> 0->0
> 0.1->1
> 2->2
> 3->3
> 50->4
> 100->5  (X=5)
> 
> is there any function for this? i have looked in several 
> packages (vegan, labdsv etc.) because I am working with 
> species by site tables, but without success. perhaps I looked 
> for the wrong terms (rank matrix etc.)
> 
> thank you for your help
> 
> regards,
> Jens
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