True and False in R

• Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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  April 11, 2017 at 9:04 pm

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  Comments posted to this topic are about the item True and False in R

• TimCarrett

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  April 12, 2017 at 12:22 am

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  Technically the answer x <- "True" is also correct as you never said that you want the boolean value of True to be stored and this is a valid string value in R.

  Anyway nice to see questions about R.

• Mr. Kapsicum

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  April 12, 2017 at 3:09 am

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  Thanks to  http://tryr.codeschool.com/   learned it from there.

• Revenant

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  April 12, 2017 at 9:38 am

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  The best material on R is R for Data Science by Wickham and Grolemund.

  Thanks, Steve!
  

• Stewart "Arturius" Campbell

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  April 13, 2017 at 1:44 am

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  Revenant - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 9:38 AM

  The best material on R is R for Data Science by Wickham and Grolemund.

  Thanks, Steve!
  

  Agreed
  Nice one, thanks Steve

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• JustMarie

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  April 17, 2017 at 9:26 am

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  Dealing with data scientists I've been learning R out of self defense.

  The book they recommended as a starter is "R for Everyone" by Jared P. Lander.

  Having said that it is not recommended to use the T abbreviation since it evaluates to TRUE in R. It's not wrong, it's just not best practice.