Bin a numeric vector and return integer codes for the binning.
Usage
.bincode(x, breaks, right = TRUE, include.lowest = FALSE)
Arguments
x
a numeric vector which is to be converted to integer codes by
binning.
breaks
a numeric vector of two or more cut points, sorted in
increasing order.
right
logical, indicating if the intervals should be closed on
the right (and open on the left) or vice versa.
include.lowest
logical, indicating if an x[i] equal to
the lowest (or highest, for right = FALSE) breaks
value should be included in the first (or last) bin.
Value
An integer vector of the same length as x indicating which bin
each element falls into (the leftmost bin being bin 1).
NaN and NA elements of x are mapped to
NA codes, as are values outside range of breaks.
Details
This is a barebones version of cut.default(labels =
FALSE) intended for use in other functions which have checked the
arguments passed. (Note the different order of the arguments they have
in common.)
Unlike cut, the breaks do not need to be unique.
An input can only fall into a zero-length interval if it is closed
at both ends, so only if include.lowest = TRUE and it is the
first (or last for right = FALSE) interval.