Returns the n highest/lowest observations from a numeric vector.

ds_tailobs(data, n, type = c("low", "high"), decimals = 2)

Arguments

data

a numeric vector

n

number of observations to be returned

type

if low, the n lowest observations are returned, else the highest n observations are returned.

decimals

An option to specify the exact number of decimal places to use. The default number of decimal places is 2.

Value

n highest/lowest observations from data

Details

Any NA values are stripped from data before computation takes place.

See also

Examples

# 5 lowest observations ds_tailobs(mtcarz$mpg, 5)
#> [1] 10.4 10.4 13.3 14.3 14.7
# 5 highest observations ds_tailobs(mtcarz$mpg, 5, type = "high")
#> [1] 33.9 32.4 30.4 30.4 27.3
# specify decimal places to display ds_tailobs(mtcarz$mpg, 5, decimals = 3)
#> [1] 10.4 10.4 13.3 14.3 14.7