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ffbase (version 0.6-2)

quantile.ff: quantiles

Description

The function quantile produces quantiles corresponding to the given probabilities. The smallest observation corresponds to a probability of 0 and the largest to a probability of 1. Current implementation doesn't use the type parameter of quantile. For large ff vectors the difference between the types is (very) small. If x has been ffordered, quantile is fast, otherwise it is $n log(n)$.

Usage

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

Arguments

x
ff vector
probs
numeric vector of probabilities with values in [0,1].
na.rm
logical; if true, any NA and NaN's are removed from x before the quantiles are computed.
names
logical; if true, the result has a names attribute. Set to FALSE for speedup with many probs.
...
currently not used