On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Kåre Edvardsen wrote:
I'm trying to devide x into tertiles, but ends up with integer limits
even x holds one decimal. The analysis is extremely sensitive to the
Do you mean integer character representations in the labels? See ?cut and
argument 'dig.lab'. What you actually got was the 3 significant digits
(rather than integers) which you asked for. (*In the labels*, not the
actual values used.)
limits and I like to keep them right. How can that be done?
quartiles <- quantcut( x[x >= 0], q=seq(0,1, by=(1/3))
table(quartiles)
quartiles
[180,344] (344,448] (448,644]
16467 16476 16452
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