Sum, product, and range of data

Sums, differences, and products

age <- c(17, 30, 30, 25, 23, 21)
sum(age)

[1] 146

cumsum(age)

[1]  17  47  77 102 125 146

diff(age)

[1] 13  0 -5 -2 -2

diff(age, lag=2)

[1] 13 -5 -7 -4

prod(age)

[1] 184747500

cumprod(age)

[1]        17       510     15300    382500   8797500 184747500

factorial(5)

[1] 120

min(age)

[1] 17

max(age)

[1] 30

range(c(17, 30, 30, 25, 23, 21))

[1] 17 30

diff(range(c(17, 30, 30, 25, 23, 21)))

[1] 13

which.min(age)

[1] 1

which.max(age)

[1] 2

Identify element closest to a value (here: 0)

vec <- c(-5, -8, -2, 10, 9)
val <- 0
which.min(abs(vec-val))

[1] 3

vec1 <- c(5, 2, 0, 7)
vec2 <- c(3, 3, 9, 2)
pmax(vec1, vec2)

[1] 5 3 9 7

pmin(vec1, vec2)

[1] 3 2 0 2