How to replace outliers with the 5th and 95th percentile values in R

I used this code to get what you need:

qn = quantile(df$value, c(0.05, 0.95), na.rm = TRUE)
df = within(df, { value = ifelse(value < qn[1], qn[1], value)
                  value = ifelse(value > qn[2], qn[2], value)})

where df is your data.frame, and value the column that contains your data.

You can do it in one line of code using squish():

d2 <- squish(d, quantile(d, c(.05, .95)))

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In the scales library, look at ?squish and ?discard

#--------------------------------
library(scales)

pr <- .95
q  <- quantile(d, c(1-pr, pr))
d2 <- squish(d, q)
#---------------------------------

# Note: depending on your needs, you may want to round off the quantile, ie:
q <- round(quantile(d, c(1-pr, pr)))

example:

d <- 1:20
d
# [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20


d2 <- squish(d, round(quantile(d, c(.05, .95))))
d2
# [1]  2  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 19

This would do it.

fun <- function(x){
    quantiles <- quantile( x, c(.05, .95 ) )
    x[ x < quantiles[1] ] <- quantiles[1]
    x[ x > quantiles[2] ] <- quantiles[2]
    x
}
fun( yourdata )