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Exercise

Selection of data frame elements (2)

Instead of using numerics to select elements of a data frame, you can also use the variable names to select columns of a data frame.

Suppose you want to select the first three elements of the type column. One way to do this is

planets_df[1:3,2]

A possible disadvantage of this approach is that you have to know (or look up) the column number of type, which gets hard if you have a lot of variables. It is often easier to just make use of the variable name:

planets_df[1:3,"type"]

Instructions

100 XP

Select and print out the first 5 values in the "diameter" column of planets_df.