R: Unleash Machine Learning Techniques

Working with functions

Next up, we will be looking at functions, which is a technique or methodology to easily structure and modularize your code, specifically lines of code which perform specific tasks, so that you can execute them whenever you need them without writing them again and again. In R, functions are basically treated as just another data type and you can assign functions, manipulate them as and when needed, and also pass them as arguments to other functions. We will be exploring all this in the following section.

Built-in functions

R consists of several functions which are available in the R-base package and, as you install more packages, you get more functionality, which is made available in the form of functions. We will look at a ...