Equal frequency discretization in R

Question

I\'m having trouble finding a function in R that performs equal-frequency discretization. I stumbled on the \'infotheo\' package, but after some testing I found that the al

Answer 1

Here's another solution using mltools.

set.seed(1)
x <- round(rnorm(20), 2)
x.binned <- mltools::bin_data(x, bins = 5, binType = "quantile")
table(x.binned)

x.binned
[-2.21, -0.622)   [-0.622, 0.1)    [0.1, 0.526)  [0.526, 0.844)    [0.844, 1.6] 
              4               4               4               4               4