Test whether a numeric value falls into a specified range in R

Test whether a numeric value falls into a specified range in R, Let’s dive into the problem.

Example 1: Interactions between Basic Function

The dplyr package from the tidyverse must first be loaded and installed if we want to use the between() function:

#install.packages("dplyr")       
library("dplyr")

Following that, we must also define a value, an upper bound, and a lower bound for our range.

Test whether a numeric value falls into a specified range in R

x1 <- 5                       
a <- 3                     
b <- 8

Now that we have our values, we can use the between the function to see if they fall within our range:

between(x1, a, b)      
TRUE

Our result exceeds both the lower and higher bounds, as shown by the RStudio console returning the logical value TRUE.

Let’s give an example of what occurs when a value is checked that is outside of our range. To start, we must define a few new values.

x2 <- 100                        
a <- 12                      
b <- 17

As we did in Example 1, we can now use the between command.

between(x2, a, b)      
FALSE

This time, the between function informs the RStudio console that our value does not fall within our range by returning FALSE.