D3.js quantile.range() Function

Last Updated : 26 Aug, 2020

The quantile.range() function is used to set the range for the quantile scale. The number of values in the range array determines the number of quantiles that are created by this function.

Syntax:

quantile.range([range]);

Parameters: This function accepts single parameter as mentioned above and described below.

range: This parameter accepts an array of discrete values.

Return Value: This function does not return any value.

Below examples illustrate the quantile.range() function in D3.js:

Example 1:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <meta charset="UTF-8" /> 
    <meta name="viewport" path1tent= 
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/> 
  
    <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"> 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h2 style="color:green">GeekforGeeks</h2> 
  
    <p>quantile.range() Function</p> 
  
    <script> 
        var quantile = d3.scaleQuantile() 
            .range([6, 12, 18, 24]); 
  
        // Printing the output 
        document.write("when domain is not specified") 
        document.write("<h3>quantile(10): "  
                + quantile(10) + "</h3>"); 
        document.write("<h3>quantile(20): "  
                + quantile(20) + "</h3>"); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Example 2:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <meta charset="UTF-8" /> 
    <meta name="viewport" path1tent= 
        "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/> 
  
    <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"> 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h2 style="color:green">GeekforGeeks</h2> 
    <h3>quantile.range() Function</h3> 
    <script> 
        var quantile = d3.scaleQuantile() 
            // Setting domain for the scale. 
            .domain([10, 20, 30, 40]) 
            // Discrete range 
            .range([6, 12, 18, 24]); 
  
        // Printing the output 
        document.write("<span>quantile(10): "  
            + quantile(10) + "</span><br>"); 
        document.write("<span>quantile(20): "  
            + quantile(20) + "</span><br>"); 
        document.write("<span>quantile(30): "  
            + quantile(30) + "</span><br>"); 
        document.write("<span>quantile(40): "  
            + quantile(40) + "</span><br>"); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 