Basic data types

Introduction to R for Finance

Lore Dirick

Manager of Data Science Curriculum at Flatiron School

Numeric

42.5

42.5

5

5

5L

5
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Character

"Hello world"

"Hello world"

"forty"

"forty"

"5"

"5"
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Logical

TRUE

TRUE

FALSE

FALSE

true

Error: object 'true' not found

NA

NA
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Variables and data types

my_answer <- TRUE

my_answer

TRUE

food <- "carrots"

food

"carrots"
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class()

my_answer <- TRUE

class(my_answer)

"logical"

class(5)

"numeric"

class(5L)

"integer"
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