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is.finite {base}R Documentation

Which Elements are Finite?

Description

is.finite returns a vector of the same length as x the jth element of which is TRUE if the jth element of x is finite.

At present, IEEE arithmetic is not supported and this is simply the same as !is.na(x).

Usage

is.finite(x)

[Package base version 0.60 ]