[R] Diff btw percentile and quantile

[Wacek Kusnierczyk]

William Dunlap wrote:

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> I entered the same x into Excel 2003 and used the formulae
> =percentile(A1:10,0),
> =percentile(A1:A10,.125), ..., =percentile(A1:A10,1) and got the results
>    1, 1.125, 2.25, 3, 4, 6.875, 8, 8.875, 10
> This matches only R's type 7, the default.
>   

hurray!  in this respect, excel is as good as r ;)

vQ