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\name{xtile}
\alias{xtile}
\title{Split a numeric variable into a number of bins and return a vector of bin numbers}
\usage{
xtile(x, n = 5, rev = FALSE, type = 7)
}
\arguments{
\item{x}{Numeric variable}

\item{n}{number of bins to create}

\item{rev}{Reverse the order of the bin numbers}

\item{type}{An integer between 1 and 9 to select one of the quantile algorithms described in the help for the stats::quantile function}
}
\description{
Split a numeric variable into a number of bins and return a vector of bin numbers
}
\examples{
xtile(1:10, 5)
xtile(1:10, 5, rev = TRUE)
xtile(c(rep(1, 6), 7:10), 5)

}
\seealso{
See \link[stats]{quantile} for a description of the different algorithm types
}