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

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 Vector na.rm: Boolean value to ignore NA

Example 1: Output:

[1] 5
[1] -3

Example 2: Output:

[1] NA
[1] 4

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