How to find Nth smallest value in vector in R ?

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

In this article, we will discuss how to find the Nth smallest in vector in the R programming language.

Steps -

Create vector
Take input from the user using the function readline().
Convert data from string to int using the function as.integer().
In this step, we are finding nth largest number using

Syntax:

sort(vector name ) [n value])

Parameter:

Vector name is the vector which we created.
N value is which largest number you want to print.

Example 1:

a<- c(1,3,4)

x = readline();
x = as.integer(x);

print(sort(a)[x])

Output:

[1] 1

Example 2:

a<- c(3453,39898,-997784)

x = readline();
x = as.integer(x);

print(sort(a)[x])

Output:

[1] 39898

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