Tukey’s Five-number Summary in R Programming – fivenum() function

fivenum() function in R Language is used to return Tukey’s five-number summary of input data i.e., minimum value, lower-hinge value, median value, upper-hinge value and maximum value of the input data.

Syntax: fivenum(x, na.rm = TRUE)

Parameters:
x: indicates numeric object
na.rm: indicates logical value. If TRUE, NAs and NANs are dropped.

Example 1:

# Create numeric data object
x <- seq(1, 13, by = 2)

# Show Tukey's five-number summary
fivenum(x)

Output:

[1]  1  4  7 10 13

Example 2:

# Create numeric data object
x <- rnorm(1000)

# Show Tukey's five-number summary
fivenum(x)

Output:

[1] -2.97770299 -0.65995003 -0.04482463  0.70722486  2.99627903