use 'unlist' > x <- list(1:10, 20:27, 30:50) > x [[1]] [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
[[2]] [1] 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 [[3]] [1] 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 > quantile(unlist(x)) 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1.0 15.0 31.0 40.5 50.0 > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:44 PM, ufuk beyaztas <ufukbeyaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi dear all, > > It may be a simple question, i have a list output with different number of > elements as following; > > [[1]] > [1] 0.86801402 -0.82974691 0.39746666 -0.98566707 -4.96576856 -1.32056754 > [7] -5.54093319 -0.07600462 -1.34457280 -1.04080125 1.62843297 -0.20473912 > [13] 0.30659907 2.66908117 2.53791837 0.53788013 -0.57463077 0.27708874 > [19] -2.94233200 1.54565643 -6.83694100 7.21556266 -3.14823536 -1.34590796 > [25] 0.78660855 5.53692735 1.22511890 7.65249980 -0.43008997 -0.10536125 > > [[2]] > [1] -2.80332826 0.54414548 4.38232256 -1.38407653 -1.59241491 -1.35509664 > [7] 1.04806755 -0.27685465 -1.36671548 -3.16649719 2.17194692 -3.49404253 > [13] 4.69102017 2.78297615 0.34565006 1.05954751 1.78836097 -0.80393182 > [19] 3.74315304 1.17427902 1.62354686 0.53186688 -6.56519965 -3.39045485 > [25] 0.01043676 -0.18857654 -0.57070351 -0.06135564 6.92331269 -1.46544614 > [31] -1.65309767 > > [[3]] > [1] 4.1923546 0.6319591 -0.8568113 -3.3115788 -2.4166481 -1.1543074 > [7] -0.9333245 0.2632038 -0.6909956 -3.1008763 -2.9557687 1.5382464 > [13] 1.2713290 6.6527302 1.0433603 -0.9916190 -2.7724673 -1.6554250 > [19] 1.8023591 -1.5101793 1.2604704 -0.2853326 -2.4312827 -0.4731487 > [25] 3.5061061 1.7392190 1.5493419 -0.7203778 -0.6995221 2.7686406 > [31] 6.1813364 -1.8665294 > > I want to compute the percentile of all of 94 elements, i tried > quantile(data) but i got an error like > Error in sort.list(x, partial = unique(c(lo, hi))) : > 'x' must be atomic for 'sort.list' > Have you called 'sort' on a list? > Can some one help me abouth this ? > Thanks for any idea... > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/A-question-about-list-tp3385711p3385711.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.