initial support for rank

doc/api-hidden.rst

@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
    DataArray.T
    DataArray.cumsum
    DataArray.cumprod
+   DataArray.rank
 
    ufuncs.angle
    ufuncs.arccos

doc/api.rst

@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ Computation
 :py:attr:`~DataArray.T`
 :py:attr:`~DataArray.cumsum`
 :py:attr:`~DataArray.cumprod`
+:py:attr:`~DataArray.rank`
 
 **Grouped operations**:
 :py:attr:`~core.groupby.DataArrayGroupBy.assign_coords`

doc/whats-new.rst

@@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ Enhancements
   (:issue:`1485`).
   By `Joe Hamman <https://github.com/jhamman>`_.
 
+- New :py:meth:`~xarray.DataArray.rank`. Requires bottleneck (:issue:`1731`).
+  By `0x0L <https://github.com/0x0L>`_.
+
 **Performance improvements**
 
 - :py:func:`~xarray.concat` was computing variables that aren't in memory

xarray/core/dataarray.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 from .accessors import DatetimeAccessor
 from .alignment import align, reindex_like_indexers
 from .common import AbstractArray, BaseDataObject
+from .computation import apply_ufunc
 from .coordinates import (DataArrayCoordinates, LevelCoordinatesSource,
                           Indexes)
 from .dataset import Dataset, merge_indexes, split_indexes
@@ -1958,6 +1959,42 @@ def quantile(self, q, dim=None, interpolation='linear', keep_attrs=False):
                                               interpolation=interpolation)
         return self._from_temp_dataset(ds)
 
+    def rank(self, dim):
+        """Ranks the data.
+
+        Equal values are assigned a rank that is the average of the ranks that
+        would have been otherwise assigned to all of the values within that set.
+        Ranks begin at 1, not 0.
+
+        NaNs in the input array are returned as NaNs.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        dim : str, optional
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        ranked : DataArray
+            DataArray with the same coordinates and dtype 'float64'.
+
+        Examples
+        --------
+
+        >>> arr = xr.DataArray([5, 6, 7], dims='x')
+        >>> arr.rank('x')
+        <xarray.DataArray (x: 3)>
+        array([ 1.,   2.,   3.])
+        Dimensions without coordinates: x
+        """
+        import bottleneck as bn
+        axis = self.get_axis_num(dim)
+        func = bn.nanrankdata if self.dtype.kind is 'f' else bn.rankdata
+        return apply_ufunc(func, self,
+                           dask='parallelized',
+                           keep_attrs=True,
+                           output_dtypes=[np.float_],
+                           kwargs=dict(axis=axis)).transpose(*self.dims)
+
 
 # priority most be higher than Variable to properly work with binary ufuncs
 ops.inject_all_ops_and_reduce_methods(DataArray, priority=60)

xarray/tests/test_dataarray.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 from xarray.tests import (
     TestCase, ReturnItem, source_ndarray, unittest, requires_dask,
     assert_identical, assert_equal, assert_allclose, assert_array_equal,
-    raises_regex, requires_scipy)
+    raises_regex, requires_scipy, requires_bottleneck)
 
 
 class TestDataArray(TestCase):
@@ -2976,6 +2976,21 @@ def test_sortby(self):
         actual = da.sortby(['x', 'y'])
         self.assertDataArrayEqual(actual, expected)
 
+    @requires_bottleneck
+    def test_rank(self):
+        # floats
+        ar = DataArray([[3, 4, np.nan, 1]])
+        expect_0 = DataArray([[1, 1, np.nan, 1]])
+        expect_1 = DataArray([[2, 3, np.nan, 1]])
+        self.assertDataArrayEqual(ar.rank('dim_0'), expect_0)
+        self.assertDataArrayEqual(ar.rank('dim_1'), expect_1)
+        # int
+        x = DataArray([3,2,1])
+        self.assertDataArrayEqual(x.rank('dim_0'), x)
+        # str
+        y =  DataArray(['c', 'b', 'a'])
+        self.assertDataArrayEqual(y.rank('dim_0'), x)
+
 
 @pytest.fixture(params=[1])
 def da(request):