[R] absolute value

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Fred J." <phddas at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hello
> 
> could you please tell me what is the function to get
> the absolute value of the real or complex number.
> most of other languages it is abs(x) , what is it in
> r?
> 
> I did few searhces in the help docs for no avail.

Will you believe it?

> abs(1+1i)
[1] 1.414214

In the complex case some may prefer Mod(x) which does the same thing.

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