What is the range() function in R?

Overview

The range() function in R is used to return a vector with two elements:

  • The first element represents the minimum value of the input vector.
  • The second element is the maximum value of the input vector.

Syntax

The range() function takes the syntax below:

range(…, na.rm = FALSE)
Syntax for the range() function in R

Parameter value

The range() function takes the following parameter values:

  • ...: This represents any numeric or character objects or vectors.
  • na.rm: This takes a Boolean value (TRUE or FALSE) indicating if the NaN (Not a Number) values should be omitted or not.

Return value

The range() function returns a vector object holding the result.

# creating an input vector object

a <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 10, NaN)



# calling the range() function 

range(a, na.rm=TRUE)

Explanation

  • Line 2: We create a vector object, a.
  • Line 5: We implement the range() function on the object. We print the result to the console.

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