2.5 Data types

There are four common data types in R, they are numeric, logical, character and integer. All these data types can be used to create vectors natively.

#create a numeric vector x with 5 components
x<-c(1,3,2,10,5)
x

## [1]  1  3  2 10  5

#create a logical vector x
x<-c(TRUE,FALSE,TRUE)
x

## [1]  TRUE FALSE  TRUE

# create a character vector
x<-c("sds","sd","as")
x

## [1] "sds" "sd"  "as"

class(x)

## [1] "character"

# create an integer vector
x<-c(1L,2L,3L)
x

## [1] 1 2 3

class(x)

## [1] "integer"