Calculate the Cumulative Maxima of a Vector in R Programming – cummax() Function

The cumulative maxima is the max value of elements 1 through l for an element l of the given variables.

cummax() function in R Language is used to calculate the cumulative maxima of the values of vector passed as arguments.

Syntax: cummax(x) 

Parameters:

x: numeric object

Example 1:

Python3

# R program to cumulative maxima

# Calling cummax() function
cummax(6:2)
cummax(-2:-6)
cummax(3.8:1.2)

Output:

[1] 6 6 6 6 6
[1] -2 -2 -2 -2 -2
[1] 3.8 3.8 3.8

Example 2:

Python3

# R program to cumulative maxima

# Creating vectors
x1 <- c(5, 3, 2, 6, 3, 4)
x2 <- c(-4, 6, 3)

# Calling cummax() function
cummax(x1)
cummax(x2)

Output:

[1] 5 5 5 6 6 6
[1] -4  6  6

Since, the maxima is calculated for the values in decreasing order and hence the above code shows two cumulative values for vectors.

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