  The $n$th Ramanujan prime is the smallest positive integer $R_n$ such that
for all $x \geq R_n$ the interval $(x/2, x]$ contains at least $n$ primes. In
this paper we undertake a study of the sequence $(\pi(R_n))_{n \in
\mathbb{N}}$, which tells us where the $n$th Ramanujan prime appears in the
sequence of all primes. In the first part we establish new explicit upper and
lower bounds for the number of primes up to the $n$th Ramanujan prime, which
imply an asymptotic formula for $\pi(R_n)$ conjectured by Yang and Togb\'e. In
the second part of this paper, we use these explicit estimates to derive a
result concerning an inequality involving $\pi(R_n)$ conjectured by of Sondow,
Nicholson and Noe.
