Dataframes in R Language

A data frame is a table or a two-dimensional array-like structure in which each column contains values of one variable and each row contains one set of values from each column.

Following are the characteristics of a data frame.

  • The column names should be non-empty.
  • The row names should be unique.
  • The data stored in a data frame can be of numeric, factor or character type.
  • Each column should contain same number of data items.

Dataframe are generic data objects of R which are used to store the tabular data. Data frames are the most popular data objects in R programming because it is more comfortable to analyze the data in the tabular form. Data frames can also be taught as mattresses where each column of a matrix can be of the different data types. Dataframe are made up of three principal components, the data, rows, and columns.

Let’s work on Dataframe Creation, Accessing its values , Subsetting and other functions in the upcoming posts.