How to Create a Table of Ranks from a Crosstab

Introduction

This article describes how to go from a crosstab or summary grid table...

...to a table that displays the rank based on the cell percentages. In this example, we are ranking the brand attributes for each cola:

Requirements

A table with rows and columns.

Method

1. Select your table.

2. Copy the table name from Properties > GENERAL > Name.

3. Go to Calculation > Custom Code and paste the below into the R CODE box:

# specify the table
x = table.q5

# make data negative (the rank function ranks smallest number as 1)
x = x*-1

# apply the ranking use "average" rank for ties
ranks = apply(x,1,rank,"average")

# transpose the result back to the original format
table.rank = t(ranks)

The above code pulls in the table using its reference name from step 2 (table.q5). It then adjusts the data to be suitable for use with the rank function, which is applied across the rows using the apply function.

4. OPTIONAL: If you have a NET row and column, you can remove these by updating the fifth line of code as follows:

x = x[-NROW(x),-NCOL(x)]*-1

The above removes the last row and last column from the table.

5. OPTIONAL: If you'd like to create the ranks within each column instead of each row, change the ranks line to the following:

ranks = apply(x,2,rank,"average")

See Also

How to Work with R in Displayr