StatMeasures (version 1.0)

pentile: Create pentiles of a variable

Description

Takes in a vector, and returns a vector of pentiles

Usage

pentile(vector, decreasing = FALSE)

Arguments

vector

an integer or numeric vector

decreasing

a logical input, which if set to FALSE puts smallest values in pentile 1 and if set to TRUE puts smallest values in pentile 5; FALSE is default

Value

an integer vector of pentile values

Details

pentile is a convinient function to get integer pentiles of an integer or numeric vector. By default, the smallest values are placed in the smallest pentile.

Sometimes one may want to put smallest values in the biggest pentile, and for that the user can set the decreasing argument to TRUE; by default it is FALSE.

See Also

decile, outliers, imputemiss

Examples

# Scores vector
scores <- c(1, 4, 7, 10, 15, 21, 25, 27, 32, 35,
            49, 60, 75, 23, 45, 86, 26, 38, 34, 67)

# Create pentiles based on the values of the vector
pentileScores <- pentile(vector = scores)
pentileScores <- pentile(vector = scores, decreasing = TRUE)