fivenum                 package:base                 R Documentation

Tukey Five-Number Summaries

Description:

     Returns Tukey's five number summary (minimum, lower-hinge, median,
     upper-hinge, maximum) for the input data.

Usage:

     fivenum(x, na.rm = TRUE)

Arguments:

       x: numeric, maybe including `NA's and +/-`Inf's.

   na.rm: logical; if `TRUE', all `NA' and `NaN's are dropped, before
          the statistics are computed.

Value:

     A numeric vector of length 5 containing the summary information. 
     See `boxplot.stats' for more details.

See Also:

     `IQR', `boxplot.stats', `median', `quantile', `range'.

Examples:

     fivenum(c(rnorm(100),-1:1/0))

