Nth values

Source: R/nth.values.R

Returns the Nth highest or lowest values in a vector

nth.values(x, N = 2, smallest = FALSE)

Arguments

x

Numeric vector
N

Number of (Nth) values returned
smallest

(FALSE/TRUE) Return the highest, else smallest values

Value

Numeric vector of Nth values

Note

This function returns n lowest or highest elements in a vector

Author

Jeffrey S. Evans <jeffrey_evans@tnc.org>

Examples

nth.values(1:20, N=3, smallest = TRUE)                 

#> [1] 1 2 3
nth.values(1:20, N=3)

#> [1] 18 19 20