Question

A single element of a character vector is referred as ________ (a) Character string (b) String (c) Data strings (d) Raw data I had been asked this question in an online interview. The question is from Basics topic in section History, Overview and Getting Started of R Programming Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

The correct answer is (a) Character string For explanation: Single element of a character vector is often referred to as a character string. Dates are represented by the Date class and can be coerced from a character string using the as.Date() function. This is a common way to end up with a Date object in R.