How to get ranks with no gaps when there are ties among values?

Question

When there are ties in the original data, is there a way to create a ranking without gaps in the ranks (consecutive, integer rank values)? Suppose:

x <-           


        

Answer 1

I can think of a quick function to do this. It's not optimal with a for loop but it works:)

x=c(1,1,2,3,4,5,8,8)

foo <- function(x){
    su=sort(unique(x))
    for (i in 1:length(su)) x[x==su[i]] = i
    return(x)
}

foo(x)

[1] 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 6