Weighted Rank Data Analysis

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I have a data set that looks like the following:

           x1    x2    x3    x4   Weight 
Factor1    1     3     10     1     4 
Factor2    3     4      2     9     1
Factor3    3     5      6     1     3
Factor4    4     3      1     5     3
Factor5    5     8      4     8     2

Where x represents people and factor represents the treatment variable. The values in the first 4 columns represent risk on a scale from 1 through 10 and the weight column represents the weighted importance (1-5) of that value. I would like to create a meaningful analysis to see which x has the greatest risk based on the various factors and their weights but am unsure of how I should approach this. Since I know this is ranked data, I thought that a Friedman Test would make sense. I would also like to analyze this in R.