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R -Programming Objects and Data Structures

Ryan Arjun
3 min readFeb 24, 2020

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As we know that R is an Open Sourced powerful programming language and also known as an Advanced Statistical language which is cross-plateform compatible, so it can be installed on Windows, MAC OSX and Linux and extensively used by Software Programmers, Statisticians, Data Scientists, and Data Miners.

Objects

R language supports object oriented programming or you can also say that everything in R is an object. An object is nothing and it is a data structure having some attributes and methods which act on its attributes. There are many types of R-objects.

Data Structures

We are very familiar with many language such as C and Java. If you are working within any programming language, then you need to use different variables to store different data. Moreover, variables are reserved in a memory location to store values. In this case, your program is using some memory area on the computer and you need to define your variable data type where data structures are the only way of arranging data so it can be used efficiently on a computer.

Please keep in mind, R doesn’t have variables declared as some data type and the variables are appointed with R-objects and the knowledge form of the R-object becomes the datatype of the variable. The most popular data structured objects are…

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Ryan Arjun
Ryan Arjun

Written by Ryan Arjun

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