[R] cut a vector in equal parts

Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com
Wed Feb 27 12:01:48 CET 2013


There is a discussion of the ways to do this
task (which can be trickier than it seems) at:

http://www.portfolioprobe.com/2012/12/24/miles-of-iles/

Pat


On 26/02/2013 17:39, Martin Batholdy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to cut a vector of values in parts.
> Each part should have an equal number of elements.
>
> for example:
>
> x <- (rnorm(500)^2)
>
> now I want 5 vectors each with 100 elements.
> The first vector should include the 100 lowest values of x and so on
> (so that the fifth vector contains the 100 highest values of x).
>
>
> thanks for any help!
>
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