Beginning Data Science in R 4: Data Analysis, Visualization, and Modelling for the Data Scientist

© Thomas Mailund 2022

T. MailundBeginning Data Science in R 4https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8155-0_10

10. Working with Vectors and Lists

Thomas Mailund¹  

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Aarhus, Denmark

 

In this chapter, we explore working with vectors and lists a little further. We will not cover anything that is conceptually more complex that we did in the previous chapter. It is just a few more technical details we will dig into.

Working with Vectors and Vectorizing Functions

We start out by returning to expressions. In the previous chapter, we saw expressions on single (scalar) values, but we also saw that R doesn’t really have scalar values; all the primitive data we have is actually vectors of data. What this means is that the expressions we use in R are actually operating ...