Ranks of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient

Dear Sirs,
I'm using cor() funcion with Spearman method to analyse correlation of timeseries. As you know Spearman method is based on ranks of timeseries, instead of their value.

Well, what I'm not able to do is to extract the ranks of the timeseries used from cor() to compute the Spearman correlation coefficient (also called rho).

For instance if I have this two timeseries

a = c(-0.10, -0.21, -0.35, -0.38, -0.19)
b = c(-0.53, -0.42, -0.59, -0.55, -0.35)

I obtain rho in this way

cor(a,b, method="spearman")
[1] 0.6

but how can I obtain ranks for the two timeseries? Of course, the same computed and used by previous cor().

cor(rank(a), rank(b))