radiant.data (version 1.6.2)

xtile: Split a numeric variable into a number of bins and return a vector of bin numbers

Description

Split a numeric variable into a number of bins and return a vector of bin numbers

Usage

xtile(x, n = 5, rev = FALSE, type = 7)

Arguments

x

Numeric variable

n

number of bins to create

rev

Reverse the order of the bin numbers

type

An integer between 1 and 9 to select one of the quantile algorithms described in the help for the stats::quantile function

See Also

See quantile for a description of the different algorithm types

Examples

xtile(1:10, 5)
xtile(1:10, 5, rev = TRUE)
xtile(c(rep(1, 6), 7:10), 5)