[R] rank(x,y)?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

order(order(x,y))


On 6/21/06, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> Suppose I have two columns, x,y.  I can use order(x,y) to calculate a
> permutation that puts them into increasing order of x,
> with ties broken by y.
>
> I'd like instead to calculate the rank of each pair under the same
> ordering, but the rank() function doesn't take multiple values
> as input.  Is there a simple way to get what I want?
>
> E.g.
>
>  > x <- c(1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4)
>  > y <- c(1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2)
>  > rank(x+y/10)
> [1] 1 3 6 7 2 4 5 8
>
> gives me the answer I want, but only because I know the range of y and
> the size of gaps in the x values.  What do I do in general?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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