On Wed, 27 May 2009, utkarshsinghal wrote:
I define the following function:
(Please don't wonder about the use of this function, this is just a
simplified version of my actual function. And please don't spend your time in
finding an alternate way of doing the same as the following does not exactly
represent my function. I am only interested in a good explanation)
f1 = function(x,ties.method="average")rank(x,ties.method)
f1(c(1,1,2,4), ties.method="min")
[1] 1.5 1.5 3.0 4.0
I don't know why it followed ties.method="average".
Look at the arguments to rank()
args(rank)
function (x, na.last = TRUE, ties.method = c("average", "first",
"random", "max", "min"))
When you do rank(x, ties.method) you are passing "min" as the second
argument to rank(), which is the na.last argument, not the ties.method
argument. This didn't give an error message because there weren't any NAs
in your data.
You want
f1 = function(x,ties.method="average")rank(x,ties.method=ties.method)
which gives
f1(c(1,1,2,4), ties.method="min")
[1] 1 1 3 4
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlum...@u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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