NOTE: This man page is for the rank
S4 generic function defined in the BiocGenerics package.
See ?base::rank
for the default method
(defined in the base package).
Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects
not supported by the default method.
rank(x, na.last=TRUE, ties.method=c("average", "first", "last", "random", "max", "min"))
?base::rank
for a description of
these arguments.
?base::rank
for the value returned
by the default method.Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages should
behave as consistently as possible with the default method.
base::rank
for the default rank
method.
showMethods
for displaying a summary of the
methods defined for a given generic function.
selectMethod
for getting the definition of
a specific method.
rank
method (defined for
Vector objects).
rank # note the dispatch on the 'x' arg only
showMethods("rank")
selectMethod("rank", "ANY") # the default method
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