Learning Quantitative Finance with R

Data types

In any programming language, one needs to store various pieces of information using various variables. Variables are reserved memory locations for storing values. So by creating a variable, one is reserving some space in the memory. You may like to store various types of data types, such as character, floating point, Boolean, and so on. On the basis of data type, the operating system allocates memory and decides what can be stored in reserved memory.

All the things you encounter in R are called objects.

R has five types of basic objects, also known as atomic objects, and the rest of the objects are built on these atomic objects. Now we will give an example of all the basic objects and will verify their class:

• Character:

  We assign a character ...