What is a data frame?

Introduction to R for Finance

Lore Dirick

Manager of Data Science Curriculum at Flatiron School

Data frame

	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Row 1	data	1	TRUE
Row 2	more data	2	TRUE
Row 3	even more data	3	TRUE
Row 4	enough data	4	FALSE

Data frames and friends

name <- c("Dan", "Dan", "Dan", "Rob", "Rob", "Rob")
payment <- c(100, 200, 150, 50, 75, 100)

debt <- data.frame(name, payment)
debt

  name payment
1  Dan     100
2  Dan     200
3  Dan     150
4  Rob      50
5  Rob      75
6  Rob     100

Name that frame!

name <- c("Dan", "Dan", "Dan", "Rob", "Rob", "Rob")
payment <- c(100, 200, 150, 50, 75, 100)
debt <- data.frame(name, payment)

colnames(debt) <- c("friend", "money")
debt

  friend money
1    Dan   100
2    Dan   200
3    Dan   150
4    Rob    50
5    Rob    75
6    Rob   100

debt <- data.frame(friend = name, money = payment)

Let's practice!

Introduction to R for Finance