The “acos” Function in R
Package: Base R (No specific package, it’s a built-in function)
Purpose: To compute the arccosine (inverse cosine) of a numeric vector, returning values in radians.
General Class: Mathematical Computation
Required Argument(s):
x: A numeric vector for which the arccosine is to be computed.
Notable Optional Arguments:
None
Example:
# Example usage
values <- c(-0.5, 0, 0.5)
# Compute the arccosine
arccosine_values <- acos(values)
print(arccosine_values)In this example, acos is a built-in function in base R, and it is used to compute the arccosine (inverse cosine) of a numeric vector. The x argument is the required numeric vector for which the arccosine is calculated. There are no notable optional arguments for this function. The result is a numeric vector where each element represents the arccosine of the corresponding element in the input vector, returned in radians.