What is the atan() Function in R

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The atan() function in R is “used to return inverse tangent value of a numeric value”. For example, atan(1) returns 0.7853982 radians.

Syntax

atan(number)

Parameters

number: It’s a number as a numeric value.

Return value

The atan() function returns the inverse tangent of a number (radians) sent as a parameter. It is between [-pi/2,pi/2] in radians.

Example 1: How to use the atan() function

v1 <- -1
v2 <- 0.5
v3 <- 0

atan(v1)
atan(v2)
atan(v3)

Output

[1] -0.7853982
[1] 0.4636476
[1] 0

If you pass the 0 to the atan() function, it will return 0.

Example 2: Using atan() function with a Vector

To apply atan() function to a vector, you can use the c() function to create a vector and then pass it to the atan() function.

rv <- c(-1, 0.5, 0, 0.5, 1)
atan(rv)

Output

[1] -0.7853982 0.4636476 0.0000000 0.4636476 0.7853982

Example 3: Passing a pi to the atan() function

The pi is a built-in constant in R programming, and its value is 3.141593.

Let’s find the pi constant’s atan() value.

atan(pi)

Output

[1] 1.262627

Let’s see another example of pi.

atan(pi / 4)

Output

[1] 0.6657738

Plot the atan() function to a graph

We can use the seq() function to create a series of values and pass that to the plot() function, creating a line chart.

dt <- seq(-1, 1, by = 0.01)

plot(dt, atan(x), typ = "l", col = "red")

abline(v = 0, lty = 6, col = "blue")

Output

R atan() Function

That is it for this tutorial.

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