object (in R)

object (in R)

R objects are ways of saving information in R. R objects can be individual values (e.g., MyNumber <- 3) or a vector (e.g., MyVector <- c(1:10)) or even a data frame (e.g., MyCopyOfFingers <- Fingers). 

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