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To: Olanrewaju Sanni <o_sanni@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Quintiles
From: Chuck Cleland <ccleland@optonline.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:42:47 -0500
Cc: s-news@wubios.wustl.edu
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On 3/3/2008 5:29 AM, Olanrewaju Sanni wrote:
Hello S-plus users,
Please, can anybody tell me the command to calculate the quintiles of a set of numbers.

> quantile(car.miles, probs=0:5/5)
   0%    20%  40%   60%    80%  100%
 88.7 189.16  201 209.1 217.18 379.8

?quantile

Kind Regards,
Lanre
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