Calculate Median of elements of a Vector in R Programming median() Function (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 15 Jul, 2025

**median()** function in R Language is used to calculate the median of the elements of the numeric vector passed as argument.

Syntax: median(x, na.rm)Parameters: x: Numeric Vectorna.rm: Boolean value to ignore NA

Example 1:

Python3 1== `

R program to calculate median of a vector

Creating vector

x1 <- c(2, 3, 5, 7, 4, 8, 6) x2 <- c(-3, -5, 6, 2, -4)

Calling median() function

median(x1) median(x2)

`

Output:

[1] 5 [1] -3

Example 2:

Python3 1== `

R program to calculate median of a vector

Creating vector

x <- c(2, 3, 5, NA, 4, NA, 6)

Calling median() function

with NA values included

median(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Calling median() function

with NA values excluded

median(x, na.rm = TRUE)

`

Output:

[1] NA [1] 4