How to create a consecutive group number

Question

I have a data frame (all_data) in which I have a list of sites (1... to n) and their scores e.g.

  site  score
     1    10
     1    11  
              


        

Answer 1

Another solution using the data.table package.

Example with the more complete datset provided by Jaap:

setDT(dat)[, number := frank(site, ties.method = "dense")]
dat
    site     score number
 1:    1 0.3107920      1
 2:    1 0.3640102      1
 3:    1 0.1715318      1
 4:    8 0.7247535      3
 5:    8 0.1263025      3
 6:    8 0.4657868      3
 7:    4 0.6915818      2
 8:    4 0.3558270      2
 9:    4 0.3376173      2
10:    8 0.7934963      3
11:    8 0.9641918      3
12:    8 0.9832120      3