quantile.lvec: Calculate the quantiles of an lvec

In djvanderlaan/lvec_stats: Large Data Sets

Calculate the quantiles of an lvec

Description

Calculate the quantiles of an lvec

Usage

## S3 method for class 'lvec'
quantile(
  x,
  probs = seq(0, 1, 0.25),
  names = TRUE,
  na.rm = TRUE,
  true_probs = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

x	an object of type lvec.
probs	a numeric vector with probabilities ([0,1]).
names	add names to the result vector.
na.rm	remove missing values before calculating the quantiles
true_probs	add an attribute with the probabilities at the chosen pivots.
...	ignored.

Details

This function uses a more simple method than that used by the regular quantile method. It sorts the vector (using partial_sort for speed) and selects elements from x that correspond to the given probabilities. For example, when x has length of 11 and prob equal to 0.5, it selects the 6th element from the (partially) sorted x. For large enough vectors this is a reasonable approach.

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