I understand that the default ties.method is "average".  Here is what I get, expanding a bit on the help page example. Running R 4.3.1 on Ubuntu 22.04.2.

> x2 <- c(3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5)
> rank(x2)
 [1]  4.5  1.5  6.0  1.5  8.0 11.0  3.0 10.0  8.0  4.5  8.0

OK so the ties, each of with two members, are ranked to their mean.

So now I turn one tie from a twin to a triplet:

> x3 <- c(x2, 3)
> rank(x3)
 [1]  5.0  1.5  7.0  1.5  9.0 12.0  3.0 11.0  9.0  5.0  9.0  5.0
> sprintf("%4.3f", rank(x3))
 [1] "5.000"  "1.500"  "7.000"  "1.500"  "9.000"  "12.000" "3.000"  "11.000"
 [9] "9.000"  "5.000"  "9.000"  "5.000"

The doublet is still given the mean of the values but the triplet is rounded up.  What am I missing here?!

TIA,

Chris

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