September 2018
Beginner
206 pages
4h 27m
English
Content preview from R Programming Fundamentals
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Data Structures
There are a few different data structures in R that are crucial to understand, as they directly pertain to the use of data! These include vectors, matrices, and dataframes. We'll discuss how to tell the difference between all of these, along with how to create and manipulate them.
Data structures are extremely important in R for manipulating, exploring, and analyzing data. There are a few key structures that will hold the different types of variables we discussed in the last subsection, and more. R uses different words for some of these data structures than other programming languages, but the idea behind them is the same.