Circular mean

The mean direction: the angle of the vector sum of the unit vectors pointing along each observation.

Usage

circ_mean(x, na_rm = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A numeric vector of angles, in radians.

na_rm

A logical value (default TRUE) determining whether missing values are removed before computing. When FALSE, any NA gives NA.

Value

A single angle in [0, 2*pi), or NA_real_ when there is nothing to summarise.

See also

Other circular statistics: circ_difference(), circ_mad(), circ_median(), circ_sd(), circ_successive_difference()

Examples

# 10 degrees; an arithmetic mean would say 190
rad_to_deg(circ_mean(deg_to_rad(c(350, 30))))
#> [1] 10