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683 B
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33 lines
683 B
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Find Minimum and Maximum
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> x
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[1] 5 8 3 9 2 7 4 6 10
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> # find the minimum
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> min(x)
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[1] 2
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> # find the maximum
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> max(x)
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[1] 10
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> # find the range
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> range(x)
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[1] 2 10
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If we want to find where the minimum or maximum is located, i.e. the index instead of the actual value, then we can use which.min() and which.max() functions.
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Note that these functions will return the index of the first minimum or maximum in case multiple of them exists.
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> x
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[1] 5 8 3 9 2 7 4 6 10
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> # find index of the minimum
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> which.min(x)
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[1] 5
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> # find index of the minimum
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> which.max(x)
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[1] 9
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> # alternate way to find the minimum
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> x[which.min(x)]
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[1] 2
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