The “quantile” Function in R

• Package: Base R (no specific package required)

• Purpose: Computes sample quantiles of a numeric vector.

• General Class: Descriptive Statistics

• Required Argument(s):

• x: A numeric vector.

• Notable Optional Arguments:

• na.rm: A logical value indicating whether NA values should be stripped before the computation proceeds. The default is FALSE.

• probs: Numeric vector of probabilities with values in [0,1].

• type: The type of quantile calculation. Options include 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. The default is 7.

• names: A logical value indicating whether the result should have names or not. The default is TRUE.

• Example:

• # Example vector
  data <- c(2, 4, 6, 8, 10)
  
  # Calculate quantiles at 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75
  result <- quantile(data, probs = c(0.25, 0.5, 0.75))
  print(result)

• In this example, the quantile function is used to calculate the quantiles at 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 of the numeric vector data. The na.rm argument is set to FALSE by default, and the result is printed to the console.