Question

How to return 5 topmost values from vector in R?

I have a vector and I'm able to return highest and lowest value, but how to return 5 topmost values? Is there a simple one-line solution for this?

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1 Jan 1970

Solution

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> a <- c(1:100)
> tail(sort(a),5)
[1]  96  97  98  99 100
2010-09-11

Solution

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x[order(x)[1:5]]
2010-09-11