Unraveling data types in R – The list – A gentle introduction
In R, a list is an ordered collection of objects, like vector, but lists can actually combine objects of different types. List elements can contain any type of object that exists in R.
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What is reproducible data science project?
Think back your first chemistry or biology lab course. As you entered into a lab, what was the first thing that were taught? It was not Chemistry or Biology. For most of us, the first instruction in lab course were about how to perform basic tasks like cleaning the equipment, zeroing the scale, labeling the …
Unraveling R Data Types – The Factors – A gentle introduction
The factor data type is used to represent character data. This character data, however takes a small number of distinct values. Each distinct value is represented by a integer code, which is called as level of the factor variable.
Unraveling R data types – The Data Frame – A gentle introduction
A data frame represents a data with a number of rows and columns. Unlike matrix, data frames can contain variables with different data types, therefor Data Frames are heterogeneous.
Unraveling R data types – The Matrix – A gentle introduction
In R, matrix is a vector with two additional attributes, the number of rows and the number of columns. Since vectors are the building blocks of matrices, like vectors, matrices are also constrained to single data type.
Unraveling R data types – The Vectors – A gentle introduction
The first step in learning R programming is getting familiar with basic R objects and their structure. The fundamental data object in R is a vector. In this article we will define the R objects, create different types of vector objects and understand some of its properties. What is R Object? When R is running, …
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