R: Find partial order of smallest or largest values

partialOrder {robustHD} | R Documentation

## Find partial order of smallest or largest values

### Description

Obtain a partial permutation that rearranges the smallest (largest) elements of a vector into ascending (descending) order.

### Usage

    partialOrder(x, h, decreasing = FALSE)

### Arguments

`x` | a numeric vector of which to find the order of the smallest or largest elements.
`h` | an integer specifying how many (smallest or largest) elements to order.
`decreasing` | a logical indicating whether the sort order should be increasing (`FALSE`; the default) or decreasing (`TRUE`).

### Value

An integer vector containing the indices of the `h` smallest or largest elements of `x`.

### Author(s)

Andreas Alfons

### See Also

`order`

### Examples

    # randomly draw some values
    values <- rnorm(10)
    values

    # find largest observations
    partialOrder(values, 5, decreasing = TRUE)

[Package robustHD version 0.7.2 Index]