Fastest way to find second (third...) highest/lowest value in vector or column

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Hello,

R offers max and min, but I do not see a really fast way to find the another value in the order apart from sorting the whole vector and than picking value x from this vector.

Is there a faster way to get the second highest value (e.g.)?

Thanks

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