Vincent -
   I'm afraid there's no solution other than artificially modifying
the zeroes:

vec
 [1] 26.58950617  5.73074074  5.96222222  5.64777778 20.95728395  0.00000000  
0.07000000 12.86888889
 [9]  3.64543210  0.05049383 25.60888889  3.53246914  0.00000000 31.39049383  
3.77641975 13.19617284
[17]  0.00000000
cut(vec,quantile(vec,(0:10)/10),include.lowest=TRUE,label=FALSE)
Error in cut.default(vec, quantile(vec, (0:10)/10), include.lowest = TRUE,  :
  'breaks' are not unique
vec[vec==0] = jitter(vec[vec==0])
cut(vec,quantile(vec,(0:10)/10),include.lowest=TRUE,label=FALSE)
 [1] 10  6  7  5  9  1  3  7  4  2  9  4  2 10  5  8  1

It gives an answer, but it may not make sense for all data.

                                                          - Phil

On Thu, 13 May 2010, vincent.deluard wrote:




Dear Phil,

You helped me with a request to rand matrix columns by deciles two weeks
ago.

This really un-blocked me on this project but I found a little bug.

As in before, my data is in a matrix:

madebt[1:16,1:2]
      X4.19.2010  X4.16.2010
[1,] 26.61197531 26.58950617
[2,]  5.72765432  5.73074074
[3,]  5.95839506  5.96222222
[4,]  5.64333333  5.64777778
[5,] 20.93814815 20.95728395
[6,]  0.00000000  0.00000000
[7,]  0.07000000  0.07000000
[8,] 12.87802469 12.86888889
[9,]  3.64407407  3.64543210
[10,]  0.05037037  0.05049383
[11,] 25.59024691 25.60888889
[12,]  3.47987654  3.53246914
[13,]  0.00000000  0.00000000
[14,] 31.39037037 31.39049383
[15,]  3.78296296  3.77641975
[16,] 13.17876543 13.19617284

The apply function will work for this sample of my data:

debtdeciles = apply(madebt[1:16,1:2],2,function(x)
           cut(x,quantile(x,(0:10)/10,
na.rm=TRUE),label=FALSE,include.lowest=TRUE))

debtdeciles

    X4.19.2010 X4.16.2010
[1,]         10         10
[2,]          6          6
[3,]          6          6
[4,]          5          5
[5,]          8          8
[6,]          1          1
[7,]          2          2
[8,]          7          7
[9,]          4          4
[10,]          2          2
[11,]          9          9
[12,]          3          3
[13,]          1          1
[14,]         10         10
[15,]          4          4
[16,]          8          8

However, it will fail for

madebt[1:17,1:2]
      X4.19.2010  X4.16.2010
[1,] 26.61197531 26.58950617
[2,]  5.72765432  5.73074074
[3,]  5.95839506  5.96222222
[4,]  5.64333333  5.64777778
[5,] 20.93814815 20.95728395
[6,]  0.00000000  0.00000000
[7,]  0.07000000  0.07000000
[8,] 12.87802469 12.86888889
[9,]  3.64407407  3.64543210
[10,]  0.05037037  0.05049383
[11,] 25.59024691 25.60888889
[12,]  3.47987654  3.53246914
[13,]  0.00000000  0.00000000
[14,] 31.39037037 31.39049383
[15,]  3.78296296  3.77641975
[16,] 13.17876543 13.19617284
[17,]  0.00000000  0.00000000


debtdeciles = apply(madebt[1:17,1:2],2,function(x)
+             cut(x,quantile(x,(0:10)/10,
na.rm=TRUE),label=FALSE,include.lowest=TRUE))
Error in cut.default(x, quantile(x, (0:10)/10, na.rm = TRUE), label = FALSE,
:
 'breaks' are not unique

My guess is that we now have 3 "zeros" in each column. For each decile, we
cannot have more than 2 elements (total of 17 numbers in each column) and I
believe R cannot determine where to put the third "zero". Do you have any
solution for this problem?

Many thanks,

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