The “tan” Function in R

• Package: Base R (No specific package, it’s a built-in function)

• Purpose: To compute the tangent of a numeric vector, interpreting the input as angles in radians.

• General Class: Mathematical Computation

• Required Argument(s):

• x: A numeric vector representing angles in radians for which the tangent is to be computed.

• Notable Optional Arguments:

• None

• Example:

• # Example usage
  angles_in_radians <- c(pi/4, pi/2, 3*pi/4)
  
  # Compute the tangent
  tan_values <- tan(angles_in_radians)
  
  print(tan_values)

• In this example, tan is a built-in function in base R, and it is used to compute the tangent of a numeric vector representing angles in radians. The x argument is the required numeric vector for which the tangent is calculated. There are no notable optional arguments for this function. The result is a numeric vector where each element represents the tangent of the corresponding angle in the input vector.