outliers_by_iqr: Flag outliers by IQR

In jcalendo/coriell: Convenience Functions for Bioinformatics

Flag outliers by IQR

Description

Flag outliers based on the interquartile range

Usage

outliers_by_iqr(x, threshold = 1.5, direction = c("both", "low", "high"))

Arguments

x	numeric vector
threshold	threshold for the upper and lower limits, A.K.A. Tukey's fences
direction	return TRUE if the value is above or below the outlier cutoff. default "both", samples above and below the threshold are called outliers.

Value

boolean vector indicating which values of the input vector are flagged as outliers

Examples

x <- c(1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 6, 11)

outliers_by_iqr(x)

# Using direction="low" disregards outliers above threshold, for example
outliers_by_iqr(x, direction="low")

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