no “Infinities”

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Thanks to  Pierre-Yves for the below useful tip!

if you have a dataset from which you want the max or min but they have to be real number and not “Inf” or “-Inf” there is a way to do it:

data <- c(-Inf, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, Inf) max(data) # Return Inf min(data) # Return -Inf # To solve the problem I went to: range(data, finite=TRUE) # Then you can do myMinimum <- range(data, finite=TRUE)[1] myMaximum <- range(data, finite=TRUE)[2]

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