How to return 5 topmost values from vector in R?

Question

I have a vector and I'm able to return highest and lowest value, but how to return 5 topmost values? Is there a simple one-line solution for this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3692563/how-to-return-5-topmost-values-from-vector-in-r

Answer 1

> a <- c(1:100)
> tail(sort(a),5)
[1]  96  97  98  99 100