Length of the smallest arc which contains all the observations.
Usage
circular_range(x, axial = TRUE, na.rm = TRUE)
Value
numeric. angle in degrees
Arguments
x
numeric vector. Values in degrees.
axial
logical. Whether the data are axial, i.e. pi-periodical
(TRUE, the default) or directional, i.e. \(2 \pi\)-periodical (FALSE).
na.rm
logical value indicating whether NA values in x
should be stripped before the computation proceeds.
References
Mardia, K.V., and Jupp, P.E (1999). Directional Statistics,
Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
Hoboken, NJ, USA. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1002/9780470316979")