On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 16:06 +0100, Nuno Soares wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm a new R user (if this is a really basic question, please do excuse
> me...) and I'm having some questions regarding a deciles problem.
>
> I have a variable which I need to categorize according to its deciles (X).
> However, this categorization should be made into another variable (call it
> NewVar).
>
> Ex. for the quartiles case (just for the sake of exposition, since I need
> deciles...), I would like to be able to generate the NewVar variable based
> on the quantiles of X:
>
> X NewVar
> 1 1
> 6 2
> 2 1
> 4 2
> 3 1
> 5 2
> 12 4
> 9 3
> 8 3
> 10 4
> 11 4
> 7 3
>
> Is there a function or a way of doing this automatically? I've searched the
> help files but found no solution to this problem...
How about this:
x <- c(1, 6, 2, 4, 3, 5, 12, 9, 8, 10, 11, 7)
> cbind(x, NewVar = cut(x, 4, labels = 1:4))
x NewVar
[1,] 1 1
[2,] 6 2
[3,] 2 1
[4,] 4 2
[5,] 3 1
[6,] 5 2
[7,] 12 4
[8,] 9 3
[9,] 8 3
[10,] 10 4
[11,] 11 4
[12,] 7 3
See ?cut for more information.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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