fivenum
Tukey Five-Number Summaries
Description
Returns Tukey's five number summary.
The summary includes the minimum value, the 0.25 quantile (the lower quartile),
the median, the 0.75 quantile (upper quartile) and the maximum value.
Usage
fivenum(x, na.rm = TRUE)
Arguments
| x |
a numeric vector, NA and +/-Infs are allowed.
|
| na.rm |
a logical value, if TRUE, all NA and NaN's
will be removed before calculating.
|
Details
If an NA exists in x and na.rm is FALSE,
a vector of NA's of length 5 is returned.
If x is an empty vector,
a vector of NA's of length 5 is returned.
Value
a numeric vector of length 5, containing the five-number summary information.
See Also
Examples
x <- 1:10
fivenum(x)
# [1] 1.0 3.0 5.5 8.0 10.0
y <- c(1,3, NA, 9)
fivenum(y)
# [1] 1 2 3 6 9
fivenum(y, FALSE)
# [1] NA NA NA NA NA