calculatePercentiles: calculate quantile values from a column.

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calculate quantile values from a column.

Description

Calculate quantile values for a supplied numeric list. This is a wrapper around the R quantile function.

Usage

calculatePercentiles(column, 
  percentileList=c(0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 0.95, 0.96, 0.97, 0.98, 0.99, 1)) 

Arguments

column	a vector of numeric values. The values will be rounded to two decimal places before calculation.
percentileList	a list of the quantile values that are to be calculated (as decimal values in the range 0 to 1)

Value

Returns a list of the quantile calculated by quantile.

Author(s)

Greg Hunt <[e-mail]>

Examples

dataValues = c(1,1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,10,10,10)
calculatePercentiles(dataValues, percentileList=c(0.5))
calculatePercentiles(dataValues)

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