| % File src/library/stats/man/fivenum.Rd |
| % Part of the R package, https://www.R-project.org |
| % Copyright 1995-2007 R Core Team |
| % Distributed under GPL 2 or later |
| |
| \name{fivenum} |
| \alias{fivenum} |
| \title{Tukey Five-Number Summaries} |
| \description{ |
| Returns Tukey's five number summary (minimum, lower-hinge, median, |
| upper-hinge, maximum) for the input data. |
| } |
| \usage{ |
| fivenum(x, na.rm = TRUE) |
| } |
| \arguments{ |
| \item{x}{numeric, maybe including \code{\link{NA}}s and |
| \eqn{\pm}{+/-}\code{\link{Inf}}s.} |
| \item{na.rm}{logical; if \code{TRUE}, all \code{\link{NA}} and |
| \code{\link{NaN}}s are dropped, before the statistics are computed.} |
| } |
| \value{ |
| A numeric vector of length 5 containing the summary information. See |
| \code{\link{boxplot.stats}} for more details. |
| } |
| \seealso{ |
| \code{\link{IQR}}, |
| \code{\link{boxplot.stats}}, |
| \code{\link{median}}, |
| \code{\link{quantile}}, |
| \code{\link{range}}. |
| } |
| \examples{ |
| fivenum(c(rnorm(100), -1:1/0)) |
| } |
| \keyword{univar} |
| \keyword{robust} |
| \keyword{distribution} |
| |