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

try to think about another way

x <-  c(10,10,10,5,5,20,20)
as.numeric(as.factor(x))
[1] 2 2 2 1 1 3 3