[R] Ranking correlation with R

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

> A <- c("file1.java", "file3.java", "file2.java")
> B <- c("file2.java", "file4.java", "file1.java")
> cor(A, B, method = "spearman")
[1] 0.5


On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:22 AM, David Nemer <davidnemer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> Im fresh new in R, and Im supposed to write a code to give me a correlation
> between two rankings. So I have two ranking lists, which contain file names,
> e.g.:
>
> Ranking list 1:
> file1.java
> file3.java
> file2.java
>
> Ranking list 2:
> fiile2.java
> file4.java
> file1.java
>
> I need to see how much are these two ranking lists are alike, get a
> correlation between them. I dont even know where to start. Can anyone bring
> me some light or tips? Thank you in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> David Nemer
>
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