Data structures in R

The power of R resides in its ability to analyze data, and this ability is largely derived from its powerful data types. Fundamentally, R is a vectorized programming language. Data structures in R are constructed from vectors that are foundational. This means that R's operations are optimized to work with vectors.

Vector

The vector is a core component of R. It is a fundamental data type. Essentially, a vector is a data structure that contains an array where all of the values are the same type. For example, they could all be strings, or numbers. However, note that vectors cannot contain mixed data types.

R uses the c() function to take a list of items and turns them into a vector.

Lists

R contains two types of lists: a basic list, and a named list. A basic list is created using the list() operator. In a named list, every item in the list has a name as well as a value. named lists are a good mapping structure to help map data between R and Tableau. In R, lists are mapped using...