Large

Small

a <code>numeric</code> vector

an integer >0 defining how many extreme values should be returned. Default is <code>k = 5</code>. If <code>k > length(x)</code>, all values will be returned.

logical, defining if unique values should be considered or not. If this is set to <code>TRUE</code>, a list with the <code>k</code> extreme values and their frequencies is returned. Default is <code>FALSE</code> (as unique is a rather expensive function).

unique

for controlling the treatment of <code>NA</code>s.
 If <code>TRUE</code>, missing values in the data are put last; if
 <code>FALSE</code>, they are put first; if <code>NA</code>, they are removed.

na.last

This function returns the kth smallest, resp. largest values from a vector x.

 arith 

Extremes

A collection of miscellaneous basic statistic functions and convenience wrappers for efficiently describing data. The author's intention was to create a toolbox, which facilitates the (notoriously time consuming) first descriptive tasks in data analysis, consisting of calculating descriptive statistics, drawing graphical summaries and reporting the results. The package contains furthermore functions to produce documents using MS Word (or PowerPoint) and functions to import data from Excel. Many of the included functions can be found scattered in other packages and other sources written partly by Titans of R. The reason for collecting them here, was primarily to have them consolidated in ONE instead of dozens of packages (which themselves might depend on other packages which are not needed at all), and to provide a common and consistent interface as far as function and arguments naming, NA handling, recycling rules etc. are concerned. Google style guides were used as naming rules (in absence of convincing alternatives). The 'camel style' was consequently applied to functions borrowed from contributed R packages as well.

Andri Signorell

DescTools

Tools for Descriptive Statistics

Extremes function

an integer >0 defining how many extreme values should be returned. Default is <code>k = 5</code>. If <code>k > length(x)</code>, all values will be returned.

logical, defining if unique values should be considered or not. If this is set to <code>TRUE</code>, a list with the <code>k</code> extreme values and their frequencies is returned. Default is <code>FALSE</code> (as unique is a rather expensive function).

This function returns the kth smallest, resp. largest values from a vector x.



Extremes: Kth Smallest/Largest Values

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