Accessing and subsetting data frames (2)

As you might imagine, selecting a specific column from a data frame is a common manipulation. So common, in fact, that it was given its own shortcut, the $. The following return the same answer:

cash$cash_flow

[1] 1000 4000  550 1500 1100  750 6000

cash[,"cash_flow"]

[1] 1000 4000  550 1500 1100  750 6000

Useful right? Try it out!

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to R for Finance

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Exercise instructions

Select the "year" column from cash using $.
Select the "cash_flow" column from cash using $ and multiply it by 2.
You can delete a column by assigning it NULL. Run the code that deletes "company".
Now print out cash again.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Select the year column


# Select the cash_flow column and multiply by 2


# Delete the company column
cash$company <- NULL

# Print cash again

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