Trig {base} | R Documentation |
These functions give the obvious trigonometric functions. They respectively compute the cosine, sine, tangent, arc-cosine, arc-sine, arc-tangent, and the two-argument arc-tangent.
cos(x) sin(x) tan(x) acos(x) asin(x) atan(x) atan2(y, x)
The arc-tangent of two arguments atan2(y,x)
returns the angle
between the x-axis and the vector from the origin to (x,y), i.e., for
positive arguments atan2(y,x) == atan(y/x)
.
Angles are in radians, not degrees (i.e. a right angle is π/2).
cos(0) == 1 sin(3*pi/2) == cos(pi) x <- rnorm(99) all.equal( sin(-x), - sin(x)) all.equal( cos(-x), cos(x)) x <- abs(x); y <- abs(rnorm(x)) all(abs(atan2(y, x) - atan(y/x)) <= .Machine$double.eps)# TRUE table(abs(atan2(y, x) - atan(y/x)) / .Machine$double.eps) # depends! x <- 1:99/100 all(Mod(1 - (cos(x) + 1i*sin(x)) / exp(1i*x)) < 1.1 * .Machine$double.eps) 2* abs(1 - x / acos(cos(x))) / .Machine$double.eps #-- depends ? all(abs(1 - x / asin(sin(x))) <= .Machine$double.eps) # TRUE all(abs(1 - x / atan(tan(x))) <= .Machine$double.eps) # TRUE