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- #[[ST2001 Labs]]
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- Most of our computation in R will be using data in table form, with rows & columns, which are often stored as a `data.frame` object.
- The rows usually represent different *observations*, (e.g., humans, cars, etc.) and the columns represent different *variables* (features of the observation), (e.g., height, weight, etc.).
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- What does `glimpse()` do? #card
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- The `glimpse()` function gives us an overview of the dataset on each experimental unit.
- What does `dim()` do? #card
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- The `dim()` function returns the number of rows & columns in a dataframe.
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