Convenient function to quickly cut a numeric vector into quartiles, i.e. by
applying cut(x, breaks = fivenum(x)). Variable label is preserved by
cut_quartiles().
Arguments
- x
a numeric vector which is to be converted to a factor by cutting.
- include.lowest
logical, indicating if an ‘x[i]’ equal to the lowest (or highest, for
right = FALSE) ‘breaks’ value should be included.- ...
further arguments passed to
base::cut().
Examples
mtcars$mpg |> cut_quartiles() |> summary()
#> [10.4,15.3] (15.3,19.2] (19.2,22.8] (22.8,33.9]
#> 8 9 8 7