This is likely yet another instance of round off error, but it caught me by surprise. tmt% R --vanilla (headers skipped, version 3.0.2 on Linux)
load('qtest.rda')
length(temp)
[1] 3622
max(temp) >= quantile(temp, .98)
98% FALSE I can send the file to anyone who would like to understand this more deeply. The top 3% of the vector is a single repeated value. Terry Therneau