cut_quartiles: Cut a continuous variable in quartiles

In guideR: Miscellaneous Statistical Functions Used in 'guide-R'

Cut a continuous variable in quartiles

Description

Convenient function to quickly cut a numeric vector into quartiles, i.e. by applying cut(x, breaks = fivenum(x)). Variable label is preserved by cut_quartiles().

Usage

cut_quartiles(x, include.lowest = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x	a numeric vector which is to be converted to a factor by cutting.
include.lowest	logical, indicating if an ‘x[i]’ equal to the lowest (or highest, for right = FALSE) ‘breaks’ value should be included.
...	further arguments passed to base::cut().

Examples

mtcars$mpg |> cut_quartiles() |> summary()

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