Trim | R Documentation |
Clean data by means of trimming, i.e., by omitting outlying observations.
Trim(x, trim = 0.1, na.rm = FALSE)
x |
a numeric vector to be trimmed. |
trim |
the fraction (0 to 0.5) of observations to be trimmed from each end of x. Values of trim outside that range (and < 1) are taken as the nearest endpoint.
If |
na.rm |
a logical value indicating whether |
A symmetrically trimmed vector x
with a fraction of trim observations (resp. the given number) deleted from each end will be returned. If trim
is set to a value >0.5 or to an integer value > n/2 then the result will be NA
.
The trimmed vector x
. The indices of the trimmed values will be attached as attribute named "trim"
.
This function is basically an excerpt from the base function mean
, which allows the vector x
to be trimmed before calculating the mean. But what if a trimmed standard deviation is needed?
R-Core (function mean), Andri Signorell <andri@signorell.net>
Winsorize
## generate data
set.seed(1234) # for reproducibility
x <- rnorm(10) # standard normal
x[1] <- x[1] * 10 # introduce outlier
## Trim data
x
Trim(x, trim=0.1)
## Trim fixed number, say cut the 3 extreme elements from each end
Trim(x, trim=3)
## check function
s <- sample(10:20)
s.tr <- Trim(s, trim = 2)
setequal(c(s[attr(s.tr, "trim")], s.tr), s)
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