Get the Maximum element of an Object in R Programming - max() Function
Last Updated :
15 Jul, 2025
max()
function in
R Language is used to find the maximum element present in an object. This object can be a Vector, a list, a matrix, a data frame, etc..
Syntax: max(object, na.rm)
Parameters:
object: Vector, matrix, list, data frame, etc.
na.rm: Boolean value to remove NA element.
Example 1:
Python3 1==
# R program to illustrate
# the use of max() function
# Creating vectors
x1 <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
x2 <- c(1, 4, 2, 8, NA, 11)
# Finding Maximum element
max(x1)
max(x2, na.rm = FALSE)
max(x2, na.rm = TRUE)
Output:
[1] 9
[1] NA
[1] 11
Example 2:
Python3 1==
# R program to illustrate
# the use of max() function
# Creating a matrix
arr = array(2:13, dim = c(2, 3, 2))
print(arr)
# Using max() function
max(arr)
Output:
,, 1
[, 1] [, 2] [, 3]
[1, ] 2 4 6
[2, ] 3 5 7,, 2
[, 1] [, 2] [, 3]
[1, ] 8 10 12
[2, ] 9 11 13
[1] 13