Finding the nth highest value in a vector or a data-frame column

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R provides the max() function to find the maximum value, but is there quick way to find the nth highest value?
May 31, 2018 in Data Analytics by zombie
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sort(x,T)[n]

Here, 'x' is the data-frame/vector and 'n' is the nth highest value

answered May 31, 2018 by Bharani
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