rank (version 0.2.0)

rank_by_priority: Rank a character vector based on supplied priority values

Description

Rank a character vector based on supplied priority values

Usage

rank_by_priority(x, priority_values, ties.method = "average")

Value

A vector of ranks describing x such that x[order(ranks)]

will move priority_values to the front of the vector

Arguments

x

A character vector.

priority_values

A character vector descibing "priority" values. Elements of x matching priority_values will be ranked based on their order of appearance in priority_values

ties.method

a character string specifying how ties are treated, see ‘Details’; can be abbreviated.

Examples

x <- c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E")
rank_by_priority(x, c("C", "A"))
#> "2" "4" "1" "4" "4"

rank_by_priority(1:6, c(4, 2, 7))
#>  4 2 1 3 5 6