Rank a character vector based on supplied priority values
Usage
rank_by_priority(x, priority_values, ties.method = "average")
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.
Value
A vector of ranks describing x such that x[order(ranks)]
will move priority_values to the front of the vector
Examples
x <- c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E")
rank_by_priority(x, c("C", "A"))
#> [1] 2 4 1 4 4
#> "2" "4" "1" "4" "4"
rank_by_priority(1:6, c(4, 2, 7))
#> [1] 4.5 2.0 4.5 1.0 4.5 4.5
#> 4 2 1 3 5 6
