med: Calculating the Median

In Andy-McCarthy/BasicMath:

Description

Calculates the median of a set of numbers. The function sorts the numbers in the vector and selects the middle number (if the number of entries is odd) or takes the average of the two middle numbers (if the number of entries is even).

Usage

med(input, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

input	a vector of numbers
na.rm	true or false for whether to remove NA's before performing the calculation

Value

A number

Examples

a <- c(5,9,4,1,11)
med(a)

b <- c(5,9,4,1,11,2)
med(b)

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