In R 2.9.1/Windows, ? rank says:
Usage:
rank(x, na.last = TRUE,
ties.method = c("average", "first", "random", "max", "min"))
Arguments:
...
ties.method: a character string specifying how ties are treated,
see 'Details'; can be abbreviated.
This appears contradictory -- the default value is a vector of
strings, while the argument specification requires a single string.
Looking at the code for `rank` shows what is going on -- by using
`match.arg`, `rank` is treating this default value as the list of
legal argument values, not as the default value. The default is in
fact the first value, "average".
I suspect that this convention is documented somewhere (where?), but I
think it would be useful to make it explicit in the documentation for
`rank`.
-s
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