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sum {base}R Documentation

Sum of Vector Elements

Description

sum returns the sum of all the values present in its arguments. If na.rm is FALSE an NA value in any of the arguments will cause a value of NA to be returned, otherwise NA values are ignored.

Usage

sum(..., na.rm=FALSE)

[Package base version 0.60 ]