distmode {HelloRanges} | R Documentation

## Compute the mode of a distribution

### Description

Computes the mode (and “antimode”) of a distribution. It is not clear whether this is a generally useful statistic, but `bedtools` defined it, so we did for completeness.

### Usage

    distmode(x, anti = FALSE)

### Arguments

`x` | The vector for which the mode is computed.
`anti` | Whether to return the value with the least representation, instead of the highest.

### Details

There are methods for List subclasses and ordinary vectors/factors. The List methods are useful for aggregation.

### Value

The value that is the most (or least) prevalent in the `x`.

### Author(s)

Michael Lawrence

### See Also

Not to be confused with the data `mode` of a vector.

`bedtools_map` for an example in the context of aggregation.

### Examples

    distmode(c(1L, 2L, 1L))

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