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R Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, APIs and Library
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R Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, APIs and Library

by Margot Tollefson
April 2019
Beginner to intermediate
369 pages
6h 17m
English
Apress
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© Margot Tollefson 2019
Margot TollefsonR Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4405-0_3

3. Assignments and Operators

Margot Tollefson1 
(1)
Stratford, IA, USA
 

R works with objects. Objects can include vectors, matrices, functions, the results from a function, or a number of other kinds of objects. Objects make working with information easier. This chapter covers assigning names to objects, listing and removing objects, and object operations. Part II (Chapters 4 and 5) covers the possible forms of objects.

Some objects come with the packages in R. Other objects are user created. User-created objects have names that are assigned by the user. Knowing how to create, list, and remove user-created objects is basic to R. In R Studio, the ...

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