# any

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##### Are Some Values True?

Given a set of logical vectors, is at least one of the values true?

Keywords
logic
##### Usage
any(…, na.rm = FALSE)
##### Arguments

zero or more logical vectors. Other objects of zero length are ignored, and the rest are coerced to logical ignoring any class.

na.rm

logical. If true NA values are removed before the result is computed.

##### Details

This is a generic function: methods can be defined for it directly or via the Summary group generic. For this to work properly, the arguments … should be unnamed, and dispatch is on the first argument.

Coercion of types other than integer (raw, double, complex, character, list) gives a warning as this is often unintentional.

This is a primitive function.

##### Value

The value is a logical vector of length one.

Let x denote the concatenation of all the logical vectors in ... (after coercion), after removing NAs if requested by na.rm = TRUE.

The value returned is TRUE if at least one of the values in x is TRUE, and FALSE if all of the values in x are FALSE (including if there are no values). Otherwise the value is NA (which can only occur if na.rm = FALSE and … contains no TRUE values and at least one NA value).

##### S4 methods

This is part of the S4 Summary group generic. Methods for it must use the signature x, …, na.rm.

##### References

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

all, the ‘complement’ of any.

• any
##### Examples
library(base) # NOT RUN { range(x <- sort(round(stats::rnorm(10) - 1.2, 1))) if(any(x < 0)) cat("x contains negative values\n") # } 
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### Community examples

richie@datacamp.com at Jan 18, 2017 base v3.3.2

Pass a vector to any(), and it will return TRUE if any of the elements are TRUE. {r} any(-2:2 < 0) any(1:5 < 0)  Pass several numbers to any(), and it will return TRUE if any of the arguments are TRUE. {r} any(FALSE, 99 > 66, 64 %% 8 == 1) any(FALSE, 99 < 66, 64 %% 8 == 1)  In fact, you can pass vectors into several arguments, and everything gets combined together before checking if any of the values are TRUE. {r} any( 1:5 < 0, rep.int(FALSE, 5), 99 > 66, seq.int(8, 64, 8) %% 8 == 1 )  If there are any missing values, then any() returns NA. {r} any(-2:2 > 0, NA)  You can exclude missing values by setting na.rm = TRUE. {r} any(-2:2 > 0, NA, na.rm = TRUE)