top: Gets the largest data points

In HenrikBengtsson/R.basic: [R] Class Library - Stand-alone basic functions [DEPRECATED]

Description

Gets the n largest data points in a vector, where n can either be a fraction or a number. If n is fraction, at least round(n*length(x)+0.5) values will be found.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
top(x, n=0.05, na.rm=TRUE, inf.rm=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x	The vector of data points
n	The number or the fraction of data points to be selected. A value 0<n<1 indicates a fraction. Default value is 0.05, i.e. the top 5% percent.
na.rm	If TRUE all NA and NaN values are omitted.
inf.rm	If TRUE all Inf values are omitted.
...	Not used.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

which()

Examples

  idx <- which(top(1:100, n=0.021))
  print(idx)    # 98 99 100

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