What are data types? This is a fundamental concept in programming.
Here are some data types in R programming language.
- int stands for integers.
- dbl stands for doubles, or real numbers.
- chr stands for character vectors, or strings.
- dttm stands for date-times (a date + a time).
- lgl stands for logical, vectors that contain only TRUE or FALSE.
- fctr stands for factors, which R uses to represent categorical variables with fixed possible values.
- date stands for dates.
fct also stands for factor.