Divide variable based on quantiles

Source: R/divide_by_quantile.R

Creates a factor based on equally spaced quantiles of a variable.

divide_by_quantile(data, n, na.rm = TRUE)

Arguments

data

A numeric vector.
n

An integer specifying the number of levels in the factor to be created.
na.rm

A logical vector indicating whether the NA values should be removed before the quantiles are computed.

Value

A vector of class factor indicating in which quantile the element in data belongs.

See also

stats::quantile().

Examples

x <- c(sample(1:20, 9), NA)
divide_by_quantile(x, 3)

#>  [1] 3    1    2    1    3    1    3    2    2    <NA>
#> Levels: 1 2 3