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
IQR, boxplot.stats, median, quantile,range
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

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