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modelr (version 0.1.1)

typical: Find the typical value

Description

For numeric vectors, it returns the median. For factors, characters, and logical vectors, it returns the most frequent value. If multiple values are tied for most frequent, it returns them all. NA missing values are always silently dropped.

Usage

typical(x)

Arguments

x

A vector

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
# median of numeric vector
typical(rpois(100, lambda = 10))

# most frequent value of character or factor
x <- sample(c("a", "b", "c"), 100, prob = c(0.6, 0.2, 0.2), replace = TRUE)
typical(x)
typical(factor(x))

# if tied, returns them all
x <- c("a", "a", "b", "b", "c")
typical(x)
# }

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