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Calculate tangent of a value in R Programming – tan() Function

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tan() function in R Language is used to calculate the tangent of the numeric value passed to it as argument.

Syntax: tan(x)

Parameter:
x: Numeric value

Example 1:




# R code to calculate tangent of a value
  
# Assigning values to variables
x1 <- -90
x2 <- -30
  
# Using tan() Function
tan(x1)
tan(x2)


Output:

[1] 1.9952
[1] 6.405331

Example 2:




# R code to calculate tangent of a value
  
# Assigning values to variables
x1 <- pi
x2 <- pi / 3
  
# Using tan() Function
tan(x1)
tan(x2)


Output:

[1] -1.224647e-16
[1] 1.732051

Last Updated : 01 Jun, 2020
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