[R] absolute value

[Petr Pikal]

Hi
Did you try 
help.search("abs")

gives me 

abs(base)                               Miscellaneous Mathematical Functions
meanabsdev(cluster)                     Internal cluster functions
absolute.size(grid)                     Absolute Size of a Grob
abs.error.pred(hmisc)                   Indexes of Absolute Prediction Error for Linear 
Models
corresp(MASS)                           Simple Correspondence Analysis
crabs(MASS)                             Morphological Measurements on Leptograpsus 
Crabs
loglm1(MASS)                            Fit Log-Linear Models by Iterative Proportional 
Scaling -- Internal function
quine(MASS)                             Absenteeism from School in Rural New South 
Wales
HTML(R2HTML)                            Outputs an object to a HTML file
mad(stats)                              Median Absolute Deviation
xtabs(stats)                            Cross Tabulation
filePathAsAbsolute(tools)               File Utilities

or
?abs

You should enhance your search utility
Cheers
Petr


On 29 Apr 2004 at 22:56, Fred J. wrote:

> Hello
> 
> could you please tell me what is the function to get
> the absolute value of the real or complex number.
> most of other languages it is abs(x) , what is it in
> r?
> 
> I did few searhces in the help docs for no avail.
> 
> thanks
> F.J
> 
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Petr Pikal
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