[R] Splitting a vector into equal groups

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

check functions cut() and quantile(), and cut2() from package Hmisc; 
maybe the following is close to what you want:

x <- sample(30, 52, replace = TRUE)

k <- 5 # how many groups
qs <- quantile(x, seq(0, 1, length.out = k + 1))
y <- cut(x, round(qs), include.lowest = TRUE)
y
table(y)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris


utkarshsinghal wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have vector of length 52, say, x=sample(30,52,replace=T). I want to 
> sort x and split into five *nearly equal groups*. Note that the 
> observations are repeated in x so in case of a tie I want both the 
> observations to fall in same group.
> This seems a very common task to do, but still I couldn't find an R 
> function to do this. Any help would be highly appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> Utkarsh
> 
> 
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