Question

I tried norm, but I think it gives the wrong result. (the norm of c(1, 2, 3) is sqrt(1*1+2*2+3*3), but it returns 6..

x1 <- 1:3
norm(x1)
# Error in norm(x1) : 'A' must be a numeric matrix
norm(as.matrix(x1))
# [1] 6
as.matrix(x1)
#      [,1]
# [1,]    1
# [2,]    2
# [3,]    3
norm(as.matrix(x1))
# [1] 6

Does anyone know what’s the function to calculate the norm of a vector in R?

Answer 1

This is a trivial function to write yourself:

norm_vec <- function(x) sqrt(sum(x^2))