[R] inverse sinus in degrees

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Oct 13 15:02:16 CEST 2003


asin(), but both sin() and asin() are in radians so you appear to want

180/pi * asin(x)

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, temiz wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I would like to know how I can get inverse sinus in degrees.
> sin(90) >>>1 ; inv_fun_sin(1) >>>90.
> what should "inv_fun_sin" be in R ?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> Ahmet Temiz
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> Ankara TURKEY

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