To calculate the natural log in R, use the log() function. The default setting of this function is to return the natural logarithm of a value. But through a package called SciViews, you can use the ln() function, which also calculates the natural log in R. We will see about the ln() function in this tutorial.
ln in R
The ln() function comes with the SciViews package that takes a vector as an argument and returns the natural log of the input vector. We define ln() and ln1p() as wrappers for log()“ with defaultbase = exp(1) argument and for log1p(), respectively. The lg1p() is a convenient way to use the optimized code to calculate the logarithm of x + 1 but returning the result in base 10 logarithm.
ln(x)
ln1p()
lg()
lg1p(x)
E
lb()
Arguments
x: It is a numeric or complex vector.
Examples
R does not come with ln() function. R provides log10() function. To use ln() function, use the SciViews package.
library("SciViews")
ln(exp(2))
ln1p(c(0, 1, 11, 110))
lg(11 ^ 3)
lg1p(c(0, 1, 11, 110))
E ^ 4
lb(1:4)
Output
[1] 2
[1] 0.0000000 0.6931472 2.4849066 4.7095302
[1] 3.124178
[1] 0.000000 0.301030 1.079181 2.045323
[1] 54.59815
[1] 0.000000 1.000000 1.584963 2.000000
E is the Euler constant and is equal to exp(1).
log in R
The log() is a built-in R function that calculates logarithms of input values. The log() method calculates natural logarithms by default.
Syntax
log(x, base)
Arguments
x – It is numeric to which log has to be computed
base – It is the base of the log.
Example
Let’s find the natural log of 19 using the log() function.
data <- log(19)
cat("The natural logarithm of 19 is: ")
cat(data)
Output
The natural logarithm of 19 is: 2.944439
The natural log(ln) function is frequently used to rescale data for statistical and graphical analysis.
That is it for ln() function in R.

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