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Circular Range

Source: R/statistics.R
circular_range.Rd

Length of the smallest arc which contains all the observations. The circular range is based on the sample circular distance.

Usage

circular_range(x, axial = TRUE, na.rm = TRUE)

Arguments

x

numeric vector. Values in degrees, for which the mean, median or standard deviation are required.

axial

logical. Whether the data are axial, i.e. pi-periodical (TRUE, the default) or directional, i.e. \(2 \pi\)-periodical (FALSE).

na.rm

logical value indicating whether NA values in x should be stripped before the computation proceeds.

Value

numeric. angle in degrees

References

Mardia, K.V., and Jupp, P.E (1999). Directional Statistics, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. doi:10.1002/9780470316979

See also

sample_circular_distance()

Examples

roulette <- c(43, 45, 52, 61, 75, 88, 88, 279, 357)
circular_range(roulette, axial = FALSE)
#> [1] 169

data("san_andreas")
circular_range(san_andreas$azi)
#> [1] 173