Hello,

What is the best way to get ranks for a vector of values, limit the range
of rank values and create equal count in each group? I call this uniform
ranking...uniform count/number in each group.

Here is an example using three groups:

Say I have values:
x = c(3, 2, -3, 1, 0, 5, 10, 30, -1, 4)
names(x) = letters[1:10]
> x
a  b  c  d  e  f   g   h   i   j
3  2 -3  1  0  5 10 30 -1  4
I would like:
a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h  i  j
2  2  1  2  1  3 3  3  1 3

Same thing as above, maybe easier to see:
 c   i  e  d  b  a   j   f  g   h
-3 -1  0  1  2  3  4  5 10 30
I would get:
c  i e d b a  j f  g h
1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Note that there are 4 values with a rank of 3 because I can't get even
numbers (10/3 = 3.333).

Been to ?sort, ?order, ?quantile, ?cut, and ?split.

Thanks,

Ben

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