R: splitting dataset into quartiles/deciles. What is the right method? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Another way would be ntile() in dplyr.

library(tidyverse)

foo <- data.frame(a = 1:100,
                  b = runif(100, 50, 200),
                  stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

foo %>%
    mutate(quantile = ntile(b, 10))

#  a         b quantile
#1 1  93.94754        2
#2 2 172.51323        8
#3 3  99.79261        3
#4 4  81.55288        2
#5 5 116.59942        5
#6 6 128.75947        6