Data Structures in R
Megha Rathi · 2025
This chapter presents an in-depth discussion of the fundamental data structures in R programming, with the goal of giving researchers and students a firm grasp of their uses and applications. It starts by outlining the idea of data structures and highlighting how crucial they are to efficiently organizing and modifying data. A comprehensive explanation of each data structure, along with pertinent operations, is provided in this chapter. These include vectors, matrices, arrays, lists (including recursive lists), data frames, and factors. Readers should be comfortable working with these structures by the end of the chapter, using them to handle data in R programming tasks in an effective manner.